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THOMAS    WEEKES 


EMIGRANT    TO    AMERICA 


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AND  THE  LINEAGE  OF  HIS  DESCENDANT 


THOMAS   WICKES 


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HUNTINGTON,  LONG    ISLAND. 


BY 


STEPHEN    WICKES,  M.  D. 

LATE   OF   ORANGE,  N.  J. 
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INTRODUCTORY   REMARKS. 


The  following  record  is  compiled  from  notes  and  memoranda  which  I 
began  to  make  about  1840.  They  are  the  result  of  careful  researches  into 
the  history  of  the  Plymouth,  Massachusetts,  Connecticut  and  Rhode  Island 
Colonies  and  of  Long  Island.  Of  many  statements  the  authority  is  not 
given,  as  they  were  recorded  without  any  expectation  of  compiling  them. 
The  sources  are  given  where  thev  were  noted. 

The  events  connected  with  the  Revolutionary  War  in  the  lives  of 
Thomas  and  Eliphalet  Wickes  were  related  to  me  by  my  uncle,  EHphalet, 
and  my  father.  They  were  written  down  in  form  by  me  during  their  lives, 
and  the  record  read  and  verified  by  them  as  correct  about  the  year  1848. 
What  follows  these,  is  from  authentic  records  in  my  possession,  and  from 
my  own  recollections. 

The  early  settlers  in  America  bearing  the  patronymic  in  New  England 
and  Maryland  are  noticed,  to  show  their  co-temporary  emigration,  and  the 
probabilities  of  their  kinship  when  they  came  to  the  colonics. 

STEPHEN   WICKES. 

Orange,  New  Jersey,  March  25,  1881. 


TABLE   OF   CONTENTS. 


The  Patronymic    - 

Settlers  in   Massachusetts 

Settlers  in  Rhode  Island 

Settlers  in    Maryland  - 

Observations  on   Kinship 

Settlers  on   Long  Island 

Thomas  Weekes,  the  Patentee     - 

Ancient  Documents     - 

Lists  of  Marriages  and    Baptisms 

Monumental  Inscriptions 

Inscriptions  in   Bibles 

Major  Thomas  Wickes  (4)     - 

Eliphalet    Wickes  (2) 

General  Van  Wyck  Wickes  - 

Rev.  Thomas  S.  Wickes  - 

Thomas  Wickes,  D.  D. 

Stephen  Wickes,  M.  D.    - 

Rev.  Henry  Wickes    - 

Wm.  W.  Wickes 

Rev.  John  Wickes 

Genealojrv ;  Common  Ancestors 
Tribe  of  Eliphalet 
Tribe  of  Van  Wyck 
Tribe  of  Hannah 
Tribe  of  Harriet  - 
Family  of  Herriman 
Family  of  Denton 
Family  of  Van  Wyck 


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47 

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122 

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DERIVATION    OF   THE    FAMILY 


THE    PATRONYMIC 


Surnames  to  distinguish  families  and  their  tribes  were  not  generally 
adopted  in  England  till  after  the  Norman  Conquest. 

In  the  earlier  history  of  the  language,  little  study  and  less  attention  were 
given  to  orthography.  The  first  English  dictionary  (by  Dr.  Samuel  Johnson) 
was  only  published  in  1755,  and  it  was  not  till  the  beginning  of  the  present 
century  that  uniformity  in  the  spelling  of  words  and  names  was  manifest.  Our 
earlier  fathers  in  America  frequently  spelled  their  names  with  variations,  as 
may  be  observed  in  examining  their  signatures  to  legal  documents. 

The  names  Wye,  Wyke,  Wikes,  Weeks,  Weekes,  Wix,  Wick,  Wicks, 
represent  families  in  English  history  as  far  back  as  the  Conquest.  One  of  the 
greatest  habitats  of  the  name  was,  and  still  is,  in  the  neighborhood  of  Hast- 
ings, County  of  Sussex,  England.  The  precise  locality  from  which  it  is  derived 
is  unknown.  The  syllable  Wick  is  found  in  the  names  of  many  places,  as 
Marwick,  Padwick,  Wickham,  Wickfield,  etc.  It  is  the  Anglo  Saxon  zcuc  or 
wye  and  is  of  wide  signification,  implying  dwelling-place,  mansion,  borough, 
village,  street  (Lat.  vicus,  with  which  it  is  doubtless  connected),  monastery, 
castle,  camp,  or  military  station.  In  local  nomenclature  it  generally  implies  a 
habitation  or  village.  Several  parishes  in  England  and  Scotland  are  designated 
by  this  word  without  any  qualifying  addition.  Gualterus  Diaconus,  the  ances- 
tor of  the  family  DeHastings,  lords  of  the  barony  of  Hastings,  held  a  knight's 
fee  in  Wikes  at  the  making  of  Doomsday.     (Lower  on  Patronymics.) 

Prior  to  the  Norman  Conquest  the  "ancient  and  noble  family  of  Wakes" 
is  named  in  English  history.  This  family,  Lower  says,  claim  from  Hugh  Wac 
Lord  of  Wilesford,  County  of  Lincoln,  (of  the  time  of  Henry  I,)  whose  line 


IO  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

ended  with  Lord  Wake.  Other  authorities  claim  their  origin  from  Hereford 
Le  Wake,  who 'flourished  under  Edward  I,  1041.  Archbishop  Wake  disowns 
the  Norman  derivation,  and  considers  the  name  Le  Wake,  or  the  Watchful, 
a  title  given  to  Hereford  as  characteristic  of  a  skillful  military  commander. 

The  name  Wake  appears  in  some  copies  of  the  so-called  Battel  Abbey 
Roll.  Of  this  Roll,  Lower  remarks,  "a  full  investigation  convinces  me  that 
the  Roll  of  Battel  Abbey  is  a  nonentity;  but  like  many  other  mythic  things  we 
may  safely  say  that  it  ought  to  have  existed."  Various  lists  purporting  to  be 
the  roll,  are  extant  and  of  considerable  antiquity,  but  all  later  than  1066.  The 
surname  Wickes,  and  its  variations,  is  not  found  on  any  of  them.  It  is  there- 
fore left  in  doubt  whether  the  family  is  of  Saxon  or  Norman  origin. 

The  New  England  Geneaological  and  Historical  Register,  Boston,  1S51, 
noticing  George  Weekes,  Freeman,  1640,  etc.,  says,  "The  name  of  Weeks  or 
Weekes  is  said  by  good  authority  (Mr.  Lysons)  to  have  been  originally  Wray, 
but  took  the  form  of  Wyke,  on  the  settling  of  the  family  at  North  Wyke, 
County  of  Devon,  in  Rich.  2,  1377-95.  Francis  Weeks,  the  last  male  heir  of 
that  branch  in  England,  died  in  1611." 


Note: — Robert  D.  Weeks,  in  his  "Genealogy  of  the  family  of  George  Weekes,"  published 
at  Newark,  N.  J.,  in  1SS5  and  in  a  second  volume  called  "  Genealogy  of  the  family  of  George 
Weekes,  Part  2,"  published  in  1892,  gives  a  long  list  of  English  families  bearing  the  name 
Wickes,  Weeks,  etc.,  and  refers  to  many  coats  of  arms,  and  monuments,  bearing  the  name  in 
various  forms,  but  nothing  he  says  seems  to  prove  the  exact  source  of  our  family.  I  tiote 
however,  one  entry  from  the  parish  register  at  Hatherleigh,  Devonshire,  which  mighc  apply,  viz: 
"William,  gent.,  had  Thomas,  baptised  Feb.  24,  16T2;  John,  baptised  May  3,  1613." 

Robert  D.  Weekes  seems  to  think  that  George  Weekes  of  Dorchester,  was  from  Devon- 
shire, and  Francis  Weekes,  of  Oyster  Bay  is  thought  by  his  descendants  to  be  from  Broadwood, 
Devonshire.  "  Broadwood  Kelley,"  Devonshire,  and  "  Honeychurch,"  were  the  manors  of 
one  Francis  Weekes,  born  1590,  a  descendant  of  Sir  Richard  Weekes,  1450-1475, 


EMIGRANTS    TO    AMERICA.  11 


EMIGRANTS    TO    AMERICA 


Although  we  cannot  be  sure  of  the  exact  derivation  of  the  family,  we  do 
know  that  those  bearing  the  surname  Weeks  or  YYickes,  in  its  variations,  emi- 
grated to  America  from  the  south  of  England,  and  were  from  its  yeomanry,  of 
the  Norman  origin.  They  were  men  of  enterprise  and  adventure  and 
with  worldly  means.  They  early  acquired  positions  of  influence  in  the 
places  of  their  settlement.  They  came  between  the  years  1634  and  1640,  repre- 
sentatives of  different  tribes  of  the  name.  The  ties  of  kindred  doubtless  in- 
fluenced the  movement,  occuring  as  it  did  within  so  short  a  space  of  time. 
No  record  or  tradition  has  been  met  with  which  furnishes  any  clew  to  their 
particular  family  ties,  and  all  that  this  record  can  do,  is  to  note  their  arrival 
and  settlements. 

Francis,  George,  Matthew,  Joseph  (two  of  the  name)  and  Thomas,  em- 
barked the  same  year  (1635). 

In  Hotten's  list  of  emigrants  to  New  England,  Virginia  and  Barbadoes, 
are  found  the  following: 

Embarked  in  the  "  Hopewell,"  Turner,  Master,  Sept.,  1635,  Jo.  YVeekes, 
aged  26,  Maria  Weeks,  aged  28,  Anna  Weeks,  aged  1. 

'  Embarked  on  the  "Expedition,"   Peter  Blackley,  Master,  Nov.  2c,  1635, 
Thomas  Weekes,  aged  23. 

From  another  record  is  noted,  "1634,  Symon  Weeks,  a  worsted  weaver, 
aged  16,  emigrant  from  Dartmouth,  England." 

July  27,  1635,  embarked  in  the  ''Primrose,"  Jo.  Wicks,  aged  26. 

A  tradition,  obtained  by  this  writer  from  John  M.  Weeks,  of  Salisbury, 
Vt,  in  1848,  says  that  "Four  brothers,  young  men  not  married,  landed  at  Ply- 
mouth,* at  an  early  day  and  soon  separated.  One  went  '  down  east,'  one  south 
west,  and  two  remained  in  Plymouth,  one  of  whom  was  drowned  at  the  beach. 
The  descendants  of  the  survivor  were  chiefly  settled  in  Dorchester,  near 
Boston.  These  were  my  certain  ancestors."  Without  adopting  this -as  all 
verity,  it  outlines  the  settlements  of  Weekses  in  that  part  of  New  England. 
Four  brothers  came  to  Massachusetts  Colony  (Dorchester)  in  1635,  who  are 
those  probably  referred  to  in  the  tradition.  George  Weekes  remained  at 
Dorchester,  Francis  settled  at  Oyster  Bay,  Long  Island,  and  Thomas,  our 
ancestor,  at  Huntington,  Long  Island,  while  Joseph  was  drowned. 


Note  : — Plymounth  Colony.     There  was  no  freeman  of  the  name  in  Plymouth  Town. 


12  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

SETTLERS  IN  MASSACHUSETTS 

Dorchester  was  a  favorite  place  of  settlement  to  our  early  fathers  for  its 
supposed  facilities  of  trade.  It  was  afterwards  found  that  its  harbor  and  its 
other  surroundings  were  not  as  good  as  those  of  Boston,  and  other  places  on 
the  coast.  For  this  reason  its  population,  after  a  few  years,  considerably 
decreased. 

Geo.  Weekes  was  admitted  freeman  in  Dorchester,  1640.  His  sons  were 
freemen,  Ammail,  in  "1657,  Joseph,  in  1672,  William,  in  1672. 

Zachary  Weeks  was  freeman  in  Middlesex,  1652. 

In  1667-93  the  patronymic  is  found  in  Sandwich  and  Barnstable. 

Thomas  Weeks  was  received  an  inhabitant  of  Salem,  1639.  His  habit- 
ancy  was  probably  continuous,  as  his  will  was  probated  their  in  1656.  The 
will  names  wife  Alice,  daughters  Bertha  and  Hannah. 

In  the  Canada  expedition  of  1690,  Dorchester  furnished  soldiers,  Ammiel, 
Joseph  and  Thomas,  the  two  latter  are  noted  as  brothers. 

Louisburg  soldiers  from  Massachusetts  in  1744,  Joseph  and  John  Weeks. 

Burial  inscriptions  in  Dorchester  : 

Ammiel  Weeks,  aged  46  years,  died  April  20,  1679. 

Elizabeth  Weeks, wife  to  Ammiel  Weeks,  died  April  10,  1723,  aged  89. 

Mary  Weeks,  wife  to  Joseph  Weeks,  died  Sept.  17,  1692,  aged  56. 

(N.  E.  Gen.  and  His.  Reg.) 

SETTLERS  IN  RHODE  ISLAND 

Francis  Wickes  who  was  in  Salem  in  1635,  migrated  with  Roger  Williams 
and  four  others  to  Providence  R.  I.  in  1636.  There  they  settled  and  became 
proprietors.  In  the  annals  of  Providence  it  is  stated,  as  traditional,  that  Francis 
was  a  minor  when  he  came  to  Providence.  His  name  appears  for  the  last 
time  in  1640  as  a  signer  to  a  form  of  town  government.  Francis  is  seldom 
noticed  in  printed  records.  When  he  is,  the  spelling  of  his  name  is  uniform. 
He  migrated  from  R.  I.  to  New  York,  and  was  married  in  R.  I.  to  Elizabeth 
Luther.  Three  of  his  children  were  born  in  New  York,  a  note  of  their  bap- 
tism appearing  in  the  records  of  the  Dutch  Church.  He  was  granted  a  plan- 
tation lot  in  Gravesned,  L.  I.,  Aug.  10,  1648,  was  in  Oyster  Bay  in  1650  and 
became  a  joint  proprietor.  His  children,  Samuel,  Joseph,  John,  Thomas, 
James.  Elizabeth  (married  Nicholas  Simkins,)  Ann,  (married  Joseph  Carpen- 
ter,) and  Daniel,  with  himself  and  sons-in-law  were  in  1683  "rated"  as  inhabit- 
ants of  Oyster  Bay.  Pub.  Doc.  N.  Y.  His.  Society.  John  A.  Weekes,  now  of 
Oyster  Bay,  on  the  old  homestead,  claims  descent  from  him. 


SETTLERS    IX    RHODE    ISLAND.  I 


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John  Wickes  was  in  Plymouth  Colony  in  1635  and  was  made  freeman 
in  1636.  He  was  received  an  inhabitant  of  R.  I.  in  1639,  and  was 
one  of  the  origin:;!  purchasers  of  Warwick,  R.  I.,  in  1642.  He  was  killed  by 
the  Indians  in  1675  (King-  Philip's  War,)  "a  very  ancient  man."  He  was  from 
Staines,  Middlesex  County,  England,  and  had  in  England  brothers,  Thomas, 
Robert  and  William.  His  son  John  migrated  to  Oyster  Bay,  L.I.,  and  settled  at 
Mosketo  Cove,  in  that  town.  While  here,  he  married  Rose,  a  daughter  of 
John  Townsend.  He  then  returned  to  R.  I.,  and  settled  on  the  old  John 
Wickes  estate.  His  fifth  son,  Thomas,  was  co-temporary  with  Thomas  Wickes 
of  Huntington,  1776.  He  is  described  in  Updike's  History  of  the  Narragan-- 
sett  Church,  as  "an  accomplished  planter  of  the  old  school,  firm  in  purpose, 
courteous  in  manner,  scrupulously  exact  in  all  his  dealings  and  fond  of  social 
intercourse."  He  had  for  many  years  been  a  public  man,  and  in  public  office 
prior  to  1775.  He  withdrew  to  private  life  in  that  year  owing  to  a  difference 
of  opinion  in  regard  to  the  Revolution."  Nothing  has  been  found  to  show 
the  relationship  between  Francis  and  John,  but  the  family  now  in  R.  I.  trace 
their  descent  from  John. 

John  Wickes  of  R.  I.  was  a  follower  of  Samuel  Gorton,  who  made  himself 
obnoxious  to  the  magistrates  of  the  Massachusetts  and  Plymouth  Colonies, 
claiming  a  transcendental  enlightenment  in  spiritual  matters.  He  called  him- 
self "Professor  of  the  mysteries  of  Christ,"  taught  that  in  himself  and  other 
true  believers,  "the  child  is  born,  a  son  is  given,"  and  blessed  God  that  he  was 
not  brought  up  in  the  schools  of  human  learning.     (Hildreths  History.) 

John  Wickes  with  Gorton  and  others  were  condemned  to  severe  punish- 
ment for  being  blasphemous  disbelievers  in  Jesus  Christ.  They  were  after- 
wards pardoned.     (Winthrop.) 

It  was  because  of  their  religious  belief  that  they  left  the  Massachusetts 
Colony  and  having  purchased  a  tract  at  Shawomit,  in  R.  I.,  in  1643,  settled 
there,  the  laws  of  that  Colony  allowing  freedom  of  religious  opinion. 

That  John  Wickes  was  a  man  of  mild  and  conciliatory  character  appears 
from  the  tradition  of  his  tragic  death.  John  Callender  (Historical  Discourses) 
says  of  him,  "He  became  one  of  the  first  victims,  within  the  Colony  of  R.  1.,  ot 
the  war  of  1675.  In  relation  to  his  death  this  tradition  exists ;  that  on  the 
approach  of  danger,  when  the  garrison  had  been  provided  and  the  inhabitants 
had  generally  repaired  there,  he  could  not  be  persuaded  that  he  required  any 
protection.  From  his  past  experience  of  the  Indians,  their  good  will  and  kind- 
ness to  him  personally,  he  doubted  whether  there  was  any  danger.  Notwith- 
standing the  repeated  admonitions  of  his  friends,  he  ventured  beyond  the  garrison. 


14  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

He  did  not  return.  His  fate  was  known  to  his  friends  by  seeing  his  head  set  on 
a  pole  near  his  own  dwelling.  His  body  was  found  the  succeeding  day.  The  head 
and  body  were  interred  in  distinct  graves,  and  two  hillocks  that  mark  the  spot 
are  still  shown  as  the  grave  of  John  Wickes."  Callender  in  describing  his 
death,  in  1675,  spells  his  name  Weeks. 

The  Charter  by  Charles  II,  of  the  Colony  of  Rhode  Island  and  Provi- 
dence Plantations  (1663)  names  John  Weeks  as  a  grantee. 

Among  officers  chosen  at  a  general  election  at  Newport  (1650)  for 
Warwick,  was  John  Wickes.     (Annals  of  Providence). 

Thus  the  spelling  was  not  uniform  in  his  own  life.  It  became  so  in  the 
generation  succeeding. 

SETTLERS  IN  MARYLAND. 

The  records  of  the  early  emigrants  to  Maryland  are  few  and  imperfect. 
The  Isle  of  Kent  is  called  by  the  historian  to  be  "the  first  focus  of  Anglo- 
Saxton  civilization  within  the  limits  of  Maryland."  Joseph  Wickes  was  a 
holder  of  lands  there  in  1650.  We  have  no  means  of  knowing  how  much 
earlier  he  was  there.  Joseph  called  his  purchase  Wickliflfe  and  gave  parts  of  it 
to  others  upon  condition  that  they  would  occupy  it  and  thus  settle  near  him. 
Joseph's  descendants  are  to  this  day  in  Kent  County,  and  Samuel  and  Joseph 
are  two  of  the  oldest  and  most  common  Christian  names  among  them.  Lam- 
bert Wicks  (Capt.)  appointed  Naval  Commander  Oct.  10,  1776,  was  of  the 
Maryland  family.  For  his  exploits,  the  historian  calls  him  a  second  Paul 
Jones.     (Lossing  II  pp.  844-5.) 

Capt.  Benjamin  Wickes,  also  of  this  family,  is  mentioned  by  Rev.  Mr. 
Cary  of  the  Baptist  Mission,  Serampore,  1805,  as  "Our  much  beloved  brother 
in  Christ."     He  was  an  India  Trader.     (Gen.  Assem.  Magazine,  1805). 

A  letter  to  this  writer,  dated  July  18,  184S,  from  his  daughter,  Elizabeth 
W.  Bradford,  of  Philadelphia,  says  that  her  father*  was  born  in  Kent  County, 
Dec.  10,  O.  S.,  1746,  the  fifth  of  a  family  of  six  children.  His  father's  name 
was  Benjamin.  Capt.  Benjamin  had  twelve  children,  seven  sons  and  five 
daughters.  His  second  son  was  named  Lambert.  Capt.  Benjamin  was  a  ruling 
eider  in  the  6th  Presbyterian  Church  in  Philadelphia,  an  eminently  pious  man, 
also  clerk  at  the  Navy  Yard,  and  held  in  such  esteem  by  the  Government, 
that  he  was  retained  notwithstanding  his  disabilities  through  the  infirmities  of 
age,  having  an  assistant  appointed  to  relieve  him  in  his  duties.  (Letter  of  J. 
S.  McMullin,  June   1848). 


Note  : — *She  supposed  him  to  be  a  brother  of  Captain  Lambert  Wickes. 


OBSERVATIONS    OX    KINSHIP. 


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There  is  a  tradition  in  the  Maryland  family  that  their  patronymic  as  it 
was  m  England,  was  changed  and  "  Wickes  "  adopted  before  leaving- the  old 
country  for  the  purpose  of  distinguishing  in  all  the  future,  the  emigrating- 
tribe  to  America. 

Buckingham,  Wickliffe  and  Bath  arc  the  names  of  the  three  oldest  estates 
of  the  Maryland  family. 

OBSERVATIONS  ON    KINSHIP. 

Having  noticed  the  representatives  of  the  tribes  bearing  our  patronymic, 
who  came  to  America,  six  in  the  same  year  and  all  soon  after,  who  settled  in 
New  England  and  Maryland,  the  probability  of  their  origin  and  near  kinship, 
may  be  appropriately  considered  before  we  make  note  of  Thomas  Weekes,  or 
Wickes,  the  settler  on  Long  Island. 

In  the  "  History  and  antiquities  of  the  Town  of  Hastings,"  Sussex,  Eng- 
land, by  "G.  W.  Moss,  draughtsman  to  His  Royal  Highness,  Duke  of  Cam- 
bridge," is  a  drawing  of  a  monumental  stone  on  the  pavement  of  a  nave  in  St. 
Clements  Church  in  Hastings,  having  brasses  with  the  following  inscription, 
"  Here  lyeth  ye  body  of  Thomas  Wekes,  late  Juret  of  Hastings,  and  Margery, 
!iis  wyf,  which  Thomas  dyed  the  —  day  of  November  in  the  ytrt  of  o  Lord 
God,  1163.  Thay  had  issue  of  hyr  body  on  daughter  Elizabeth."  The 
brasses  represent  Thomas,  Margery  and  besides  the  latter,  the  child.  That  of 
Thomas  is  perfect,  those  of  the  others  have  disappeared  leaving  the  outlines  of 
the  figures. 

Among  those  recorded  as  bailiffs  of  the  Town  of  Hastings  from  A.  D 
1500  to  1588  appear  the  names  of  Thomas  Wykes,  Bailiff,  1561. 

In  Barrett's  History  of  Bristol,  England,  John  Weeks  is  noted  as  Pre- 
bendary of  Bristol,  1633. 

It  is  reasonable  to  infer  that  the  emigrants  to  the  Colonies  came  from 
the  south  of  England,  and  chiefly  from  the  neighborhood  of  Hastings  on  the 
borders  of  Sussex  and  Kent  Counties.  Kent  County  in  Rhode  Island  and. 
Kent  County  in  Maryland  doubtless  perpetuate  the  memories  of  their  first 
founders  for  the  homes  they  had  left  in  old  England. 

The  Christian  names  Thomas,  John,  Joseph,  Samuel  are  family  names  in 
all  the  tribes  in  America. 

The  following  incidents  which  have  occurred  in  the  experience  of  this 
writer,  are  not  without  interest  as  illustrative  of  the  abiding  nature  of  family 
lineaments  through  the  generations. 

In  1837  he  was  riding  with  his  father  in  Troy,  N.  Y.,  when  they  met  a 
farmer  standing   in    one   of  the  squares  with  his  team,  for  the  sale  of  apples 


1 6  WICKES    GENEALOGY.  -- 

which  he  had  brought  in  from  the  country.     He  was  an  aged  man  who  sat 
holding  the  reins  cf  his  horses  while  his  son  sold  the  produce. 

The  writer's  father  left  his  carriage  while  the  writer  sat  in  full  view  of  tin- 
old  farmer's  face.  He  was  greatly  impressed  by  it;  in  the  fact  that  it  distinctly 
recalled  to  his  memory  the  face  of  his  grandfather  who  died  when  he  was  six 
and  one-half  years  old,  and  whose  features  had  been  obliterated  from  Ins 
memory  The  apples  were  bought  and  about  to  be  paid  for  when  the  ques- 
tion was  asked,  "Will  you  deliver  them  ?"  "  Yes,  what  is  your  address?"  The 
address  was  written  and  handed  to  the  old  gentleman.  "  Wickes "  said  he, 
"Why  that  is  my  name."  Upon  inquiry  he  proved  to  be  a  descendant  of 
Daniel,  of  Huntington,  Long  Island,  whose  posterity  is  to  be  found  in  north- 
ern and  western  New  York. 

About  1S43  a  gentleman  of  Troy,  N.  Y.,  married  a  daughter  of  Joseph 
Wickes  of  Chestertown,  Maryland.  When  he  brought  his  bride  to  her  new 
home,  it  was  the  universal  remark  of  those  who  saw  her,  that  she  "  looked  like 
the  Troy  Wickcses."  Her  father  who  visited  there  about  a  year  afterward  most 
certainly  bore  a  striking  resemblance  to  the  family  in  Troy. 

The  writer  of  this  while  a  resident  in  Troy,  visited  the  market  place  and 
purchased  his  supplies  for  the  day  at  one  of  the  stands,  directing  the  same  to 
be  sent  home.  As  he  was  going  out  of  the  market  it  occurred  to  him  that 
the  attendant,  who  was  a  young  man,  might  not  know  him  and  returning,  he 
said,  "  You  know  where  to  send  them  ?  "  "  O,  yes,  I  know  you,  you  are  Doctor 
Wickes,  I  came  from  England,  this  SDrinc,  from  Hastings,  and  the  first  time  i 
saw  you  in  the  market,  I  asked  if  your  name  was  Wickes.  I  knew  your  father 
too.  There  is  a  doctor  Wickes  in  Hastings  who  attends  my  mother's  family 
and  you  look  just  like  him. 

An  item  of  business  called  the  writer  in  1876  to  the  office  of  an  importer 
of  English  chemicals,  in  New  York.  He  was  referred  to  a  person  of  about 
thirty  years  of  age,  seated  at  a  desk,  writing.  With  a  politeness  quite  English, 
he  said  without  raising  his  eyes  from  his  paper,  "Well,  sir,  go  on,  I  can  hear 
you."  The  object  of  the  call  was  stated  and  the  merchant,  taking  up  a  slip 
of  paper  asked  the  address.  When  he  heard  the  name  he  dropped  his  pen  and 
for  the  first  time  looked  his  visitor  in  the  face.  "Wickes,"  said  he,  "my  mother's 
name  was  Wickes,  and  you  look  just  like  my  grandfather — just  like  him." 
He  said  that  he  was  from  Hastings.  The  interview  became  quite  cordial,  and 
ended  with  his  presenting  his  Yankee  visitor  with  a  little  book, 
chiefly  valuable  for  the  artistic  manner  in  which  it  was  gotten  up,  and  the 
occasion  of  the  gift. 


SETTLERS    ON    LOXG    ISLAND.  I  7 

SETTLERS  ON   LONG  ISLAND 

OYSTER    BAY 

An  attempt  was  made  in  1640  to  settle  this  town  by  a  few  persons  from 
Linn,  Mass.  They  abandoned  it  and  returned  to  Massachusetts.  In  1653  a 
company  of  ten,  chiefly  from  Sandwich,  in  Plymouth  Colony,  commenced 
a  settlement  on  the  site  of  the  present  village.  It  increased  with  some  rapidity 
so  that  in  ten  years  there  were  more  that  fifty  land  holders.  In  the  deed  of 
purchase  from  the  Indians  (1653)  the  names  of  the  ten  settlers  are  given. 
There  was  no  Weeks  among  them.     (Thompson's  History  of  L.  I.) 

In  T6S5  a  conveyance  was  made  by  the  Indians  to  forty-nine  inhabitants 
of  the  Town  of  Oyster  Bay.  Among  them  are  Daniel,  Thomas,  Samuel,  Jos- 
eph and  John  Weeks.  (Morton's  History  of  Plymouth).  (Smith's  History  of 
New  York.) 

These  Weekses  of  Oyster  Bay  are  not  identical  with  those  of  the  name 
who  settled  the  adjoining  town  of  Huntington.  They  were  Francis  (of  R  I.) 
and  his  sons.  Francis  was  a  primitive  proprietor  in  Oyster  Bay.  His  will 
was  dated  June  25,  1687,  and  names  the  above  sons  except  Daniel.  He  con- 
veyed to  them  farms  there  by  deeds  dated  1673.     (Oyster  Bay  Records). 

The  following  notice  is  derived  from  N.  E.  His.  and  Gen.  Register,  Vol.  6, 
page  311.  Daniel  Weekes  died  at  Ship  Harbor,  Halifax  Co.,  Nova  Scotia, 
Dec.  29,  1852,  at  the  age  of  1 1 7  years.  He  was  born  on  Long  Island  on 
December  3,  1735.  At  the  age  of  24,  he  served  in  the  British  Army  and  was 
in  the  French  and  English  war  when  Wolfe  fell,  September  12,  1758. 

In  the  War  of  the  Revolution  he  espoused  the  Royal  cause  and  received 
from  the  British  Government  a  grant  of  land  at  Ship  Harbor,  where  he  set- 
tled and  spent,  the  rest  of  his  life.  He  brought  up  a  family  of  twenty-one 
children,  whose  offspring  to  the  third  and  fourth  generation,  settled  around 
him,  and  scattered  in  many  parts  of  the  world,  numbered  some  hundreds.  In 
1S38  he  received  his  second  sight,  and  to  within  two  years  of  his  death  was  an 
active  man,  going  at  that  time  daily  bareheaded  into  the  woods  to  cut  wood 
and  timber,  an  occupation  which  he  preferred  above  all  others. 

During  the  last  two  years  of  his  life,  and  after  he  had  become  bed-ridden 
from  the  weakness  of  ag-e,  he  retained  full  possession  of  his  faculties,  hearing, 
seeing-  and  enduring  but  slight  pains  the  two  days  before  his  death.  (Nothing 
appears  in  our  record  to  identify  the  above  Daniel  with  the  tribes  of  Oyster 
Bay  or  Huntington.     It  is  quite  probable  that  he  belonged  to  one  of  them.) 


I  8  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

THOMAS    WEEKES, 

PATENTEE    OF    HUNTINGTOX,    LONG    ISLAND. 

This  emigrant  of  Nov.  20,  1635,  is  first  noticed  as  "one  of  the  earliest 
settlers  of  Wethersfield,"  in  the  Connecticut  Colony.     (Hinman's  Puritans.) 

In  1640,  Oct.  30,  Thomas  Weekes,  John  Jessup  and  Rev.  Richard 
Denton*  with  seventeen  others,  having  before  purchased  of  the  Indians,  pur- 
chased  of  the  New  Haven  Colony,  Rippowanes  (now  Stamford)  on  condition 
that  Rev.  Mr.  Denton  should  remove  there  by  the  following  March,  and  the 
others  by  November,  1641.    (Hinman.) 

We  know  not  how  long  these  settlers  remained  at  Stamford.  That  the 
years  were  few  may  be  inferred  from  the  fact  that  the  broad  acres  of  Long  Island, 
easily  subdued  and  more  easily  cultivated,  were  very  inviting  to  the  colonists  of 
Massachusetts  and  Connecticut.  We  know  that  Richard  Denton,  the  minister 
who  accompanied  the  Stamford  company  in  1641,  migrated  in  1644  with  a 
part  of  his  congregation  to  Hempstead,  L.  I.,  and  assisted  in  the  organization 
of  that  town.  Here  he  remained  till  1650,  his-  death  occuring  in  1662,  in 
England. 

Thomas  Weekes  did  not  accompany  Mr.  Denton  to  Hempstead,  but  he 
also  went  to  Long  Island  and  became  a  permanent  resident  there.  He  is  first 
noticed  as  of  Huntington,  purchased  of  the  Indians,  in  1653,  and  settled  by  ten 
families.     Savage  in  his  N.  E.  Genealogies  savs.  "Removed  to  Oyster  Bay,  be- 


to 


fore  1645,  there  died  1671."  The  latter  is  an  error,  as  he  was  of  Huntington, 
in  1662.  Savage  says,  "It  is  probably  he  who  married  Isabel,  daughter  of 
Richard  Harcut." 

Upon  the  organization  and  reception  by  the  Connecticut  Colony  of  the 
towns  of  Huntington,  Setauk  and  Oyster  Bay,  in  1662,  Thomas  Weekes  was 
appointed  constable  of  Huntington  under  the  Charter  of  Connecticut,  which 
claimed  the  eastern  end  of  the  island  as  its  jurisdiction.  In  the  May  succeed- 
ing this  appointment  all  the  towns  on  Long  Island  were  notified  to  attend  the 
General  Court  of  Connecticut  by  their  representatives.  Weekes  appeared  and 
took  the  oath  with  twenty-two  others.  After  he  returned  to  Long  Island  he 
"disavowed  his  allegiance  and  made  great  disturbance  in  Southold,  to  quiet 
which  the  General  Court  of  Connecticut  appointed  William  Allyn  and  S. 
Wyllys  to  go  to  L.  I.  and  settle  the  affair."     (Hinman.) 


Note: — ^Ancestor  of  the  Dentor.s  of  Jamacia  and  of  Nehemiah  Denton,  Gowanus,  whose 
mother  was  also  the  mother  by  a  first  marriage  of  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Stephen  Herriman  (3.) 
Through  the  Herrimans,  he  is  an  ancestor  of  all  who  are  descended  from  either  Van  Wyck  or 
Eliphalet  Wickes  (2.) 


THOMAS     WEEKES.  IQ 


The  people  of  L.  I.  were  dissatisfied  with  the  claim  which  the  Connect- 
icut Colony  had  set  up  under  its  Charter,  of  jurisdiction  on  Long  Island. 
Many  of  them  had  left  Connecticut  because  their  rigid  puritanisra  rebelled 
against  the  halfway  co vane nt.  The  "disturbance  in  Southold,"  of  which  Weekes 
was  the  author,  doubtless  had  its  origin  in  his  discontent  at  the  claim  of 
Connecticut  jurisdiction,  intensified  perhaps,  by  his  rigid  puritanism. 

That  he  was  a  stout  puritan  appears  from  the  condition  made  upon  the 
settlement  of  Stamford,  that  Denton  should  be  the  minister.  That  he  was  a 
man  of  influence  among  the  people  cannot  be  doubted. 

In  1664,  upon  the  issue  of  letters  patent  by  the  Duke  of  York,  the  Gov- 
ernor of  Connecticut  informed  the  English  on  Long  Island  that  Connecticut 
had  no  further  claims  to  the  island,  and,  "Now  that  His  Majesty's  pleasure  was 
fully  signified  by  his  letters  patent,  their  jurisdiction  ceased  and  became  null." 

The  following  entries  in  the  early  records  of  Huntington  show  the  stand- 
ing of  Thomas  Wickes  and  his  sons  Thomas  and  John  in  the  pioneer  settle-" 
ment. 

From  Huntington  Town  Records,  Vol.  1,  page  6. 

(Indian  Deed   Eastern  Purchase)     (1656,  July  50.) 

This  indenture  made  in  theyeare  1656,  in  or  abought  the  Laste  days  of 
July  beetwixt  Asharoken  Montimvicok  Sachem  and  the  reste  of  the  Indian 
owners  with  him,  on  the  one  parte,  and  Jonas  Wood,  William  Rogers,  Thomas 
Wilkes  for  themselves  and  the  reste  of  theire  associates,  on  the  other  parte, 
witnesseth  that  I,  Asharoken,  have  solid  unto  Thomas  Wood,  William  Rogers, 
Thomas  Wilkes,  all  the  medoe,  freshe  and  sake,  lyinge  and  beinge  upon  the 
north  side  of  Lonp-e  Islancie,  from  our  fourmer  bounds,  Cowharber  Brocke  to 
Nessaquock  river,  all  the  medoe  within  these  bounds,  weste  and  easte,  and  to  the 
north  sayd  to  as  far  as  Asharokens  bounds  goeth  Southwards,  as  the  necke  called 
Eatons  Necke,  Crabmedoe,  and  all  the  reste  of  the  medows  within  the  afor- 
sayde  bounds  with  all  the  arbigc  that  is  orshal  bee  heareafter  upon  tiie  woods, 
lands  within  the  afore  sayde  bounds,  to  be  the  afore  sayd  Jonas  is  Williams  and 
Thomas  is,  to  them  and  there  a  sosiats,  heeres  and  executors  for  ever,  rasarv- 
inge  to  the   Indians  Liberty    to    plante    and    hunte    within    these  afore  sayd 


20  WICKES   GENEALOGY. 

hounds,  and  that  lor  and  in  consideration  of  2  coates,  fore  sheetes,  seven  quart: 
of  licker  and  eleven  ounes  of  powther  in  witnes  heeareof  wee  have  set  to  oui 
hands. 

JONAS   WOOD, 

WILLIAM    ROGERS, 

THOMAS   WILKES. 
ASHAROKEN    X  his  mark 

MA  RAM  AH    X  his  mark 
SYHAR    X  his  mark 
FOGER    X  his  mark 
POYNEPYA    X  his  mark 
NAMEROWS   X  his  mark 
MOHEMOS    X  his  mark 
MAMAROD    X  his  mark 
MANATERORYE    X  his  mark 

Entered  in  ye  office  at  New  York,  the  15th  day  of  Oct.  1666. 

MATTHIAS    NICOLLS,  seer. 
Footnote  to  the  ahove  in  the  printed  volume  of  Records. 

Besides  this  deed  copied  from  page  6,  three  other  deeds  are  referred  to  in 
the  Huntington  Records  as  follows  : 

1667,  May  1,  Wicks,  Thomas,  from  John  Mathews,  page  99. 
1669,  April  19,  Wicks,  Thomas,  from  Noah  Rogers,  page  134. 
16S3,  Sept.  17,  Wicks,  Thomas,  from  Indians,  page  371. 
From  Huntington  Town  Records,  Vol.  1,  page  38. 


Note: — This  has  always  been  designated  as  the  Eastern  Purchase  and  as  will  be  seen 
began  where  the  first  purchase  ended  at  "Cow  Harbour  brooke,"  or  as  the  Indians  called  it 
"Opkaltontycke,"  and  running  eastward  to  the  Nesequaque  or  Srnithtown  River.  The  clause 
"To  as  far  as  Asharoken  boundes  goeth  southward,"  is  rather  indefinite  but  it  was  understood 
to  go  as  far  south  as  the  old  country  road  where  the  premises  joined  the  lands  of  the  Suceto- 
que  Indians  of  the  south  side  of  the  island.  It  was  claimed  afterwards  by  Srnithtown  that  the 
part  01  this  purchase  lying  between  Untherneck,  Fresh  Pond,  and  the  Nesequaque  or  Smith- 
town  River  was  not  owned  by  these  Indians,  but  was  included  in  valid  deeds  by  the  Nesa- 
quaque  Indians  to  the  original  proprietors  of  Srnithtown,  and  Huntington  lost  this  part  of  the 
territory  by  decree  of  the  Court  of  Assizes  in  1675. 

This  deed  and  the  old  purchase  deed  (April  2,  1653)  to  Richard  Houldbroke,  Robert 
Williams  and  Daniel  Whitehead  for  land  between  Nachaquetok  (west)  and  Opcatkontycke 
(east)  are  the  only  ones  of  much  importance  obtained  of  the  Indians  by  the  settlers  of  the 
north  side  of  Huntington. 

Thomas  Wicker.,  one  of  the  grantees  left  Wethersfield  in  1635;  was  at  Stamford,  Conn., 
in  164 1  and  came  to  Huntington  with  Edmund  Wood  and  others.  Thomas  Wood  was  son  of 
Edmund  Wood,  and  came  here  with  Thomas  Wickes  about  1654  via  Stamford. 


THOMAS    WEEKES.  2  1 

Feb.  10,  1662.  At  a  Town  meeting  it  was  ordered  that  the  bootte  (boat) 
should  be  sent  to  Corriiucott  Rivers  Mouth  to  fetch  Catherine  Seely  to  this 
Town,  upon  the  Townes  choose,  and  that  to  be  sent  the  first  opurtunity, 
Secondly,  it  was  the  same  day  ordered  that  Thomas  Weekes  and  Thomas 
Joancs  should  do  their  best  to  by  a  house  and  land  in  die  Towne  to  be  and 
continue  the  Townes  for  the  use  and  beneffit  of  ye  ministrey  therein  to  enter- 
tain a  minisster. 

In  same  Vol.  are  the  following  entries. 

16S1.  The  Town  voted  to  pay  the  five  men  that  were  forced  to  go  to 
New  York  and  suffer  imprisonment,  together  with  their  charges  and  loss  of 
time,  viz  :  Isaac  Piatt,  Jonas  Wood,  Epenetus  Piatt,  Samuel  Titus  and  Thomas 
Wicks. 

In  1664,  Dec.  13,  Thomas  Weekes  and  Isaac  Piatt  were  chosen  to  gather 
Mr.  Jones  his  rate  and  to  be  taken  as  fair,  what  may  be  for  his  comfort  so  far 
as  consernes  the  Towne  so  long  as  Mr.  Jones  does  stay  or  the  Towne  se  case.* 


In  1663,  April  6,  Thomas  Wickes,  Capt.  Seeley  and  Jonas  Wood  chosen 
to  send  their  names  to  the  Court  at  Hartford  for  the  Court  to  elect  two  of 
them  Magistrates. 

j  669.     Thos.,  Jr.  name  appears  as  land  owner,  Thos.  (1)  died  1671. 

1673.     Thomas,  Sen.,  mentioned  at  this  date. 

Thomas  (1)  in  his  will  (1670)  gives  to  Thos.  the  lot  that  was  John  Lums, 
and  an  allotment  of  meadow  that  he  bought  of  Noah  Rogers;  to  his  daughter 
Rebecca  40^,  and  to  her  three  children  20s  each;  to  his  daughter  Martha  ^4, 
and  to  her  child  20s.  Isaac  Piatt  and  Thomas  Powell,  overseers.  Witnesses. 
Jones  Wood  and  Caleb  Wood. 

June  1671.  Will  Probated  by  the  Court  of  Sessions  held  at  Southold. 
The  Widow  Wickes  and  John  Wickes,  her  son,  made  joint  executors. 

In  the  deposition  of  Thos.  Wickes  (2)  1676  in  a  matter  of  a  quarrel  and 
fight  between  Marke  Meggs  and  Henry  Soper,  his  age  is  given  as  about 
twenty-five  years.     Court  Record. 

1 69 1.  Joseph  Whittemore,  Sen.  and  Thomas  Wickes,  Sen.,  chosen  to  go 
to  Southampton  to  join  the  rest  of  the  county  in  choosing  two  assemblymen, 
on  April  3,  1691. 


Note  : — (In   Town   Records.)     Thomas  Joanes  married    Catharine,  widow   of    Henry 
Scudder,  and  was  a  brother  of  the  Rev.  John  Jones,  who  was  for  many  years  pastor  at  Hunt- 


ington. 


This  committee  was  to  collect  the  minister's  salary. 


2  2  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

i6q6.  John  Wood,  Esq.,  John  Wickes,  Esq.,  Thomas  Wickes,  Gent., 
Jonas  Wood,  Gent.,  Goodman  Epenetus  Piatt,  Gent.,  and  John  Adams,  Car- 
penter, as  trustees  of  ye  freeholders  and  comonality  of  ye  Town  of  Hunting- 
ton, receive  a  deed  from  the  Indians  of  land  in  the  center  of  the  island  in  the 
Town  of  Huntington. 

The  Nicoll's  patent  for  the  Town  of  Huntington  from  the  Duke  of  York 
issued  in  1666,  ran  to  Thomas  Weekes  and  six  others.  The  second  patent, 
Aug.  2,  16SS,  ran  to  Thomas  Weecks  and  others  and  the  third  patent,  1694, 
issued  after  the  death  -of  the  first  grantee,  ran  to  his  sons,  Thomas  Wickes  and 
John  Weekes  with  others. 

The  name  of  Thomas  (2)  appears  in  deeds  now  in  the  possession  of  the 
writer,  as  Capt.  Thomas  Wicks,  1 70S,  171 1,  1 714  and  1725.  We  have  no 
memorials  of  his  brother,  John,  except  that  he  married  Hester  Ketchum,  and 
had  a  son,  John  Wickes,  Jr.,  who  was  chosen  collector  in  1710.  John  appears 
as  a  contemporary  of  Thomas  (2),  and  during  his  brother's  life,  was  a  justice 
of  the  peace,  as  late  as  1  750,  taking  acknowledgments  of  the  deeds  heretofore 
mentioned.  In  these  deeds  are  the  names  of  Jonathan,  Philip,  Samuel,  Joseph, 
contemporaneous  with  Thomas  (2)  and  John,  and  probably  sons  of  the  latter, 
perhaps  of  each  of  them. 

Jonathan's  will  probated  1750,  names  Jonathan,  Samuel,  John,  Hezekiah, 
Elizabeth,  Dennice  and  Ruth  (Stratton).  The  will  of  Jonathan  Wickes,  Jr., 
probated  1759  names  Jonathan,  Jonas,  Elizabeth,  Sarah  and  Mary. 

Joseph's  will  probated  1746,  names  wife,  Hannah,  and  Joseph,  Daniel, 
Alexander,  Ezekiel,  Jesse  and  Hannah. 

Daniel,  son  of  Joseph,  migrated  to  Charlotte  precinct,  Dutchess  County, 
N.  Y.  His  will  probated  1784,  names  wife,  Rebecca,  sons,  Joel,  Jacob,  Zapher, 
Silas,  David;  daughters,  Rebecca,  Elizabeth,  Johannah,  Hannah. 

Of  Daniel's  sons,  Silas  lived  at  Hyde  Park,  perhaps  Troy,  and  migrated  in 
181 5  to  Reading,  Steuben  County,  N.  Y.,  (those  in  Western  and  Northern 
N.  Y.,  came  from  Daniel). 

Wills  are  also  on  record  of  Robert  Y\*eekes,  1741.  Joseph  Wicks  and 
William  Weekes,  1 746. 

The  posterity  of  Thomas  (3)  is  clear,  as  will  hereafter  appear. 


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There  is  in  the  possession  of  the  writer  (now  belonging  to  Robert  B. 
Wickes  of  Rochester,  N.  Y.()  an  old  cedar  chest,  about  fifteen  inches  long, 
five  inches  wide  and  four  inches  high,  hewn  by  hand  out  of  a  single  piece  of 
wood,  which  came  down  from  the  second  or  third  Thomas,  containing  sundry 
maps  of  the  neck  of  land  on  the  south  side  of  Lono-  Island  in  Huntinsrtoh. 
called  Santapogue,  and  many  deeds  of  land  on  Santapogue,  and  elsewhere  in 
Huntington. 

Among  them  is  the  following  deed  from  our  direct  ancestor,  Katherine 
Scudder: 

Know  all  men  by  these  presents,  that  I,  Katherine  Jones  of  Hunt- 
ington on  Long  Island  in  New  Yorkshar,  New  England,  formerly  wife  to 
Henry  Scudder,  deceased,  doe  by  these  presents,  assigne  and  make  over  unto 
my  sonn,  Jonathan  Scudder,  all  my  right,  title  and  interest  in  and  to  that  ac- 
commodation which  was  formerly  my  husband's,  Henry  Scudders,  it  being  for 
and  in  consideration  of  an  accommodation  formerly  given  to  ye  said  Jonathan 
by  his  grandfather,  which  my  sonn,  David  Scudder  hath  in  his  possession. 
Therefore,  I  doe  by  these  presents  assigne  and  make  over  from  nice,  my  heirs 
and  assigns  to  the  said  Jonathan,  his  heirs  and  assigns,  all  and  singular  my 
right,  title  and  interest  in  the  above  sd  accommodations,  yt  is  to  say.  all  my 
holding  (except  my  life  time  in  ye  old  house  which  my  husband,  Hen.  Scud- 
der built)  as  alsoe  homelot,  outlands,  meadow,  orchard  and  all  rights  and 
previlidges  yt  at  present  doth  or  ever  shall  belong  to  to  said  accommodations 
to  have  and  to  hold  forever,  I  say  I  doe  as  fully  and  amply  assign  and  make 
it  over  to  the  said  Jonathan  as  can  be  done  by  any  deed  or  conveiance  soe  yt 
nee  and  his  heirs  shall  peaceable  enjoy  it  without  any  molestation  from  mee, 
my  heirs  or  assigns  forever  as  wittness  my  hand  and  seal  this  2 2d.  8  mo.,  1680. 

Test:    THOMAS   POWELL  O    the  mark  of 

JOHN  CORE  KATHAIRN  JONES,  (L.  S.) 

23 


24  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

(Endorsed.)  Jonathan  Scudder's  deed  of  gift,  entered  upon  record  on 
Tosvn  Bool;,  16S0. 

(Also  endorsed.)  These  may  certifye  whom  it  may  concern  that  Hadiell 
Titus  did  take  away  as  many  boards  out  of  the  old  house  of  Jonathan 
Scudder  as  were  judged  by  John  Sammis  and  John  Ketchum  (being 
asked  b)r  Capt.  Piatt  &  "Eliphalet  Jones  to  judge  of  it)  as  amounted 
to  four  hundrd  foot  of  boards  besides  hinges  of  doors  ;  and  the  joice 
also  and  the  hooks  cutting  ye  posts  to  get  them  out ;  and  hindering 
the  sale  of  ye  old  house. 

These  may  certifie  any  whome  conserne  that  wee  Moses  and  David 
Scudder  disowne  any  right  or  title  or  claime  to  any  inheritance  yt  did  belong 
to  our  father,  Henry  Scudder,  deceased,  yt  is  to  say,  any  lands  or  meadow  in 
Huntington  as  wittness  our  hands  this  22  of  ye  8  mo.,  16S0. 

Test:   THOMAS  POWELL  MOSES  SCUDDER 

X  the  mark  of 
DAVID  SCUDDER 


Also  in  the  chest  is  the  following  will :  * 

IN  THE  NAME  OF  GOD  AMEN, 

The  last  will  and  Testament  of  Jonathan  Scudder,  of  the  Town  of  Hunt- 
ington in  the  County  of  SuiTolke,  on  Long  Island  as  followeth  : 

I,  being  very  weak  in  body,  though  of  perfect  understanding  and  memory, 
and  not  knowing  the  time  of  my  death,  do  bequeath  my  Soul  to  God,  who 
gave  it,  and  my  body  to  a  Decent  Burial,  and  as  to  what  Estate  God  hath 
given  me  in  the  world,  my  debts  being  satisfied,  the  rest  I  give  as  followeth  : 

First  : — I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  son,  Jonathan,  all  my  lands  that  I  am 
either  at  the  present  possessed  of  or  have  just  right  unto,  to  be  possessed  and 
enjoyed  by  my  said  son  when  he  shall  come  to  the  age  of  twenty  and  one  years, 
except  his  mother's  right  hereafter  to  be  expressed. 

Secondly  : — I  will  and  bequeath  to  my  two  younger  daughters,  Abigail 
and  Rebecca,  two-thirds  of  my  moveable  estate. 

Thirdly: — I  will  and  bequeath  to  my  beloved  wife,  Sarah  Scudder,  the 
use  and  improvement  of  all  my  lands  during  the  nonage  of  my  son,  Jonathan, 
and  the  one-third  of  the  said  lands  with  the  house  duiing  her  natural  life,  and 
then  the  said  house  and  lands  to  return  to  my  son,  Jonathan.  Further  as  to 
my  daughter  Sarah  who  is  not  composmentis  my    will  is  that  her  mother,  my 


Note  : — *The  minister  of  the  Huntington  church. 


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wife,  take  care  of  her  and  provide  for  her,  and  in  case  my  daughter  Sarah  shall 
out  live  her  mother,  ftien  that  my  son,  Jonathan,  se  her  provided  for. 

Further  my  will  is  yt  my  beloved  wife  be  and  I  do  constitute  her  sole 
executrix  of  this  my  will  and  testament,  and  further  my  will  is  that  my  estate 
be-not  divided  (except  my  wife  many)  till  my  daughter,  Abigail,  be  sixteen 
years  old.  And  I  desire  that  Capt.  Epenetus  Piatt  and  Eliphatet  Jones,  my 
loveing  brother  be  overseers  of  this  my  last  will  and  Testament. 

Further  my  will  is  that  if  any  of  my  children  dye  before  they  come  of  age 
that  the  sd  deceasing  child's  part  shall  go  to  the  surviveing  children,  equally. 

That  this  may  appear  to  be  my  last  will  and  Testament,  I  the  above  said 
Jonathan  Scudder  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  seal  this  9th  day  of  De- 
cember, 1690. 

JONATHAN  SCUDDER 
Witnesses:    EPENETUS   PLATT 
ELIPHALET  JONES 
JOHN  WOOD 

By  the   Tenour  of  these  presents,  Know  ye  that  on  ye  22  day  of  Oct., 

1691  at  Brookhaven  in  the  County  of  Suffolke,  on  long  Island,  in  the  Province 

of  N.  York  before  Coll.  William   Smith,  Judge  of  the   Prerogative  Court  in 

the  County  abovesd,  was  Proved  and  approved  the  last   Will  and  Testament 

of  Jonathan  Scudder,  late  of  Huntington,  in  the  County  abovesd,  deceased,  on 

the  10th  of  December,  160c  and  haveing  bv  his  sd  Will  and  Testament  nom- 

inated  and  appointed   Sarah,  his  wife,  his  executrix   (as  by  the  copy  of  the  sd 

Will  hereunto  annexed  may  appear)  for  the  well  and  faithfull  administration 

of  all  and  singular  the  goods,  chattels  and  credits  of  the  sd  deceased,  you  shall 

a  true  and  faithfull  inventory  of  all  the  goods,  chattels  and  credits  that  did  any 

ways  belong  or  of  right  appertain  to  the  deceased  aforesd,  at  the  time  of  his 

death,  bring  in. and  deliver  to  me  or  such  judge  or  judges  as  shall  be  appointed 

for  this  County  at  or   before  ye   first   clay   of  May,  next,  ensueing,  then  and 

there  to  render  a  true,  plain  and  perfect  account  of  your  haveing  executed  and 

performed  your  Duty  herein,  according  to  the  Tenour  of  the  sd  Will  and  the 

Laws  of  this  Province.     Sworn  before  me  the  day  and  year  abovesd. 

Witness  my  hand  and  seal : 

THOMAS  HELME,  Cler. 

WILLIAM    SMITH. 


Note: — The  Eliphalet  Jones,  to  whom  this  Will  refers  as  the  "brother  in  law"  of  the 
testatrix,  was  for  many  years  Pastor  of  the  Church  in  Huntington.  His  gravestone  is  still 
standing  in  the  Huntington  Graveyard,  and  his  name  Eliphalet  is  perpetuated  in  our  family, 
although  his  history  has  been  forgotten.  He  was  the  son  of  the  Rev.  John  Jones,  for  whom 
the  first  Thomas  Wickes  (see  page  21)  collected  subscriptions  and  built  a  parsonage. 


20  W1CKES   GENEALOGY. 

There  are  also  in  said  chest  two  deeds  dated  1708  to  Jonathan  Scudd  :r 
evidently  the  son,  one  from  John  Powel,  the  other  from  Jacob  Conklin*  also 
returns  of  surveys  o(  lands  to  -Jonathan  Scudder,  dec,"  and  to  "Jonathan 
Scudder."  Also  a  collector's  warrant,  probably  as  old  as  any  in  the  State,  to 
Jonathan  Scudder,  a  copy  of  which  is  as  follows: 

Suffolk  :  to  ye  Collector,  Jonathan  Scudder,  Huntington, 

Desem.  ye  iSth,  1684. 

Whereas,  their  is  ye  sum  of  twelve  pounds,  twelve  shillings,  two  p.  one 
forthing  levied  upon  this  Town  by  the  comittee  for  their  proportion  of  the 
Counte  share  for  the  year  past;  these  are  in  his  Royall  highness  name  to  re- 
quire you  to  gather  ye  said  sum  of  twelve  pounds,  twelve  shillings,  two  p.  one 
farthing  of  ye  persons  ratted  in  this  Town  in  ye  Counte  Ratte,  according  to 
their  proportion  ;  soe  as  you  may  bee  able  to  render  an  account  thereof  to  ye 
Counte  Treasurer  at  or  before  ye  fourth  day  of  April  next  ensueing.  Where- 
of, you  are  not  to  fail  as  you  will  answer  ye  Contrary. 

Given  under  my  hand  ye  day  and  year  above  written. 

ISAAC    PL  ATT. 

There  are  also  in  the  same  chest  a  large  number  of  surveyors  certificates, 
showing  lands  laid  out  early  in  the  18th  century  to  the  several  ownership  of 
Thomas  Wickes,  and  others,  one  or  two  of  which  I  copy  here  to  show  the 
form  of  conveyance  used  in  transfering  land  from  the  ownership  of  the 
Trustees  of  the  Town  to  individuals  : 

"  By  virtue  of  an  order  from  the  trustees  dated  August  the  18th,  1756,  to 
lay  out  to  the  right  held  by  Thomas  Wickes  5  acres  of  land  in  the  Eastern 
street  in  the  town  of  Huntington  we  have  laid  out  as  folio weth  ;  the  first  piece 
to  begin  at  a  stone  6  rods  west  of  Joseph  Langdons  garden  and  roning  west 
12  rods  by  the  highway  between  said  land  and  Joseph  Leweses  and  on  the 
east  side  by  the  highway  to  Philip  Platts  16  rods  and  on  the  north  by  a  high- 
way from  the  end  of  the  land  roning  southward  between  Thomas  Wickeses  and 
Joseph  Leweses  being  yS  rods  of  ground  and  the  second  piece  between  Thomas 
Wickeses  and  Ezekiel  Roberts  hows  southeast  and  18  rods  on  the  north  side 
35   rods   to  a  steake   9   foots   south   sow   west  of  a  great  whit  oack  tree  neer 

Ezekiel  Roberts  hows  and  on and  the  third  piece  neer  Johnathan 

Wickes  hous  on 17  rods  and  on  the  north  was  and  on  the  east 

side  1 1  rods.  4th  parcel  between  John  Wickes  house  and  Ezekiel  Roberts 
fenc  to  begin  at  a  steake  6  rods  west  of  Jonathan  Wickes  barn  and  roning  by 
the  highway  29  rods  northward  to  a  highway  down  from  Mr.  Prims  watering, 


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nothing  at  the  north  end  and  ion  9  rod   back  and  there  2  rods  vvid  and  from 

thence  to  Ezekiel   Roberts  land  8  rods  west  roning Roberts  fenc  19 

rods  and   on  the  south  by  the  highway  8  rods  being  in  all  $j4  acres  18  rods 
laid  out  by  us  this  18  day  of  August  1  736,  the  place  affording  no  more. 

JOHN    WICKES 
THOMAS    BRUSH 

This  is  recorded. 

This  return  of  survey  was  like  a  grant  from  the  Town  and  is  evidently 
the  muniment  referred  to  in  the  following  deed  of  the  "  Huntington  Green" 
which  still  lies  open  as  a  common  in  said  Town  : 

Whereas  there  have  been  and  are  still  divers  persons  belonging  to  the 
town  who  for  private  interests  have  been  endeavoring  to  encroach  on  and 
lessen  the  street  lands  and  hio;hwavs  in  this  town  to  the  great  damage  of  the 
near  neighbors,  for  the  preventing  of  which  in  the  East  street  of  s'd  town  the 
trustees  of  the  freeholders  and  commonality  of  s'd  town  thought  fit  to  order 
the  s'd  street  to  be  laid  out  to  the  right  held  by  Thomas  Wickes  (except  so 
much  as  should  be  judged  by  the  surveyors  needful  for  a  good  highway  and 
by  him  to  be  alienated  to  the  neighbors  living  near  and  reserving  the  chief 
benefit  of  the  same  to  lay  open  in  common  never  to  be  fenced  in  or  enclosed 
or  any  part  thereof— therefore  according  to  the  trustees  order  dated  the  18th 
August  1736  on  the  same  day  John  Wicks  and  Thomas  Brush  being  two 
Surveyors  of  the  s'd  town  laid  out  to  the  right  of  Thomas  Wicks  three  acres 
and  88  Rods  of  land  in  several  pieces  in  the  S'd  Street  as  many  more  at  large 
appear  by  the  return  of  the  S'd  Surveyors  on  the  town  record.  Therefore  be 
it  known  unto  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  Thomas  Wicks  for  and  in  con- 
sideration of  the  sum  of  one  pound  16  shillings  current  money  of  New  York 
to  me  in  hand  Paid  and  for  the  use  and  uses  above  s'd  and  to  and  for  no  other 
use  or  uses  Whatsoever  have  given,  granted,  bargained,  sold,  and  by  these  pres- 
ents fully,  freely  clearly  and  absolutely  give  grant  bargain  and  sell  unto  John 
Wicks,  Jonithan  Wicks,  Sam'l  Stratton,  Philip  Piatt,  Joseph  Lewis,  Thomas 
Wicks  Jr.  and  Eliphalet  Wickes  their  heirs  and  assigns  forever  ail  that  the 
above  mentioned  three  acres  and  SS  Rods  of  land  situate  and  lying  and  being 
in  the  East  Street  of  the  S'd  Town  as  above  said  together,  with  all  and  sing- 
ular the  rights  and  privieledges  thereunto  belonging  and  all  the  Estate  right 
title  and  interest  possession,  property,  claim  and  demand  whatsoever  of  me  the 
s'd  Thomas  Wicks  in  and  to  the  premises  to  have  and  hold  all  the  before 
mentioned  premises  co  them  the  Said  John  Wickes,  Jonithan  WTicks,  Sam'l 
Stratton,  Philip  Piatt — Joseph  Lewis,  Thomas  Wickes  and  Eliphalet.  Wickes 


2S  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

their  heirs  and  assigns  as  tenants  in  common  without  any  maner  of  pretence 
of  Survivorship  from  me  the  s'd  Thomas  Wicks  my  heirs  Ex'rsand  adm's  unto 
the  sole  and  only  proper  use  benefit  and  behoof  of  them  the  Said  John 
Wickes,  Jonithan  VVickes, Sam'l  Stratton,  Philip  Piatt — Joseph  Lewis,  Thomas 
Wickes  Jr.  and  Eliphalet  Wickes  their  and  each  of  their  heirs  and  assigns  for- 
ever to  lie  in  Common  for  the  use  of  them  the  purchasers  and  never  to  be 
fenced  nor  enclosed  nor  any  part  thereof  by  any  person  or  persons  whatsoever 
but  to  remain  according  the  true  intent  and  meaning  hereof  forever.  In  wit- 
uess  whereof  the  said  Thomas  Wicks  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  seal  the 
1 8  day  of  May  Anno  Dom.  i  759.    Signed  sealed  and  delivered  in  the  presence 

of 

Matthew    Buxce 

J 01:    Halstead 

THOMAS   WICKES  [Seal.] 


Another  document  in  said  chest. 

Febry  the  25,  171 2.  To  the  surveyors  of  the  Town  of  Huntington,  these 
are  to  order  you  to  lay  out  to  the  hundreds  that  were  formerly  Jonathan  Hard- 
neds  now  in  the  tenor  of  Thos.  Wickes,  Junior,  four  acres  of  land  adjoining  to 
the  land  of  Thomas  Brush,  Junior,  in  the  west  neck  on  the  hammack  on  the 
north  side  of  the  land  of  Thomas  Brush. 

April   the    26,  1 71 8,  these  are   to   order  you  to   lay  out  to  the  hundreds 

holden  by  Thomas  Wickes,  Junior,  3  acres  of  land  southeast  from   Ephrain 

Kaloms  hollow  near  the  hills. 

JOHN  WICKES, 
A  copy  per  me,  Pd. 

EPENETUS  PLATT 


Also  in  the  chest  are  the  following  documents  relating  to  slaves  : 

We,  the  subscribers,  overseers  of  the  poor  of  the  Township  of  Flushing,  do 

hereby  certify  that  Dinah,  a  slave  of  Thomas  Wickes  of  said  town,  appears  to 

us  to  be  under  fifty  years  of  age  and  of  sufficient  ability  to  provide  for  herself. 

October  7th,  1802. 

BEN'J.    T.    KISS  AM 

LAWRENCE    ROE 
Recorded  in  the  Town  Clerk's  Office  of  the  township  of  Flushing  the  4th 

day  of  January,  1804. 

By  me,        JOHN   H.  SMITH,  T.  Clk. 


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We,  the  subscriber?,  overseers  of  the  poor  of  the  Township  of  Flushing, 
do  hereby  certify  that  Scth,  a  slave  of  Thomas  Wickes  of  said  town,  appears 
to  us  to  be  under  fifty  years  of  age  and  of  sufficient  ability  to  provide  for 
himself. 

Flushing,  January  3rd,  1804. 

BENJ'M  T.   KISSAM 
LAWRENCE  ROE 

Recorded  in  the  Town  Clerk's  Office  of  the  Township  of  Flushing  the 
4th  day  of  January,  1804. 

Byrne,        JOHN   H.  SMITH,  T.  Clk. 


We,  the  subscribers,  overseers  of  the  poor  of  the  Township  of  Flushing, 
do  hereby  certify  that  Michael,  a  slave  of  Thomas  Wickes  of  said  town,  ap- 
pears to  us  to  be  under  fifty  years  of  age  and  of  a  sufficient  ability  to  provide 
for  himself. 

Flushing,  January  3rd,  1804. 

BENJ'M  T.   KISSAM 

LAWRENCE  ROE 

Recorded  in  the  Town  Clerk's  Office  of  the  Township  of  Flushing  the 
4th  day  of  January,  1804. 

By  me,         JOHN   H.  SMITH,  T.  Clk. 


We,  the  subscribers,  overseers  of  the  poor  of  the  Township  of  Flushing, 
do  hereby  certify  that  Carline,  a  slave  of  Thomas  Wickes  of  said  Town,  ap- 
pears to  us  to  be  under  fifty  years  of  age  and  of  sufficient  ability  to  provide 
for  himself. 

Flushing,  January  3rd,  1804. 

BENJ'M  T.    KISSAM 

LAWRENCE  ROE 

Recorded  in  the  Town  Clerk's  Office  of  the  Township  of  Flushing  the 
4th  day  of  January,  1804. 

By  me,        JOHN   H.  SMITH,  T.  Clk. 


30  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

To  all  whom  it  may  concern,  know  ye  that  I,  the  subscriber,  have  obtain- 
ed from  the  overseers  of  poor  of  the  Township  of  Flushing,  a  certificate  pur- 
porting that  Carline,  a  slave  of  mine,  is  under  fifty  years  of  age  and  of  sufficient 
ability  to  provide  for  himself,  and  that  1  do  hereby  manumit  and  set  free  the 
said  slave,  Carline. 

Little  Neck,  January  5th,  1S04. 

THOS.  WICKES 


THOS.  WICKES 

Bt.  of  Mess.  Cornelius  Van  Brunt  &  Stephen  B.  Williamson, 
Executors  to  the  Estate  of  Albert  Adriance 

1    Negro  woman  about  50  years  of  age,  named  Mary         -         -      ] 

1    Boy  about  16  years  of  age,  named  Ned      -  >■     $300.00 

1     do.   about  13       "      "      "         "        Benjamin  J 

Flushing,  June  16th,  1S06.  Received  payment. 

CORN'S  VAN   BRUNT 

Endorsed:     Bill  for  Molly,  Ned  and  Benjamin  -         -  -  $300.00. 


We,  Abraham  Hendrickson  and  Henry  Mills,  overseers  of  the  poor  of  the 
Town  of  Jamaica  in  Queens  County  and  State  of  New  York,  do  hereby 
certify  that  Ned,  the  slave  of  Thomas  Wickes,  which  said  Thomas  Wickes 
resides  in  said  Town  of  Jamaica,  appears  to  us  to  be  under  the  age  of  forty- 
five  years  and  of  sufficient  ability  to  provide  for  himself  Given  under  our 
hands  the  Fourth  day  of  June  in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  One  Thousand  Eight 
Hundred  and  Fourteen. 

ABRAHAM   HENDRICKSON    )      Overseers 
HENRY  MILLS  J        of  Poor. 


ANCIENT    DOCUMENTS.  ^ 

The  following  will  is  in  the  said  chest: 

In  the  name  oe  god  amen   I,  Eliphalet  Wickes  of  the  town  of  Hunt- 
ington in  Suffolk  County  on  Nassaw  Island  Being  this  Thirtieth  Day  of  June 
in  the  year  of  Our  Lord  One  thousand  Seven  hundred  and  sixty-one  Sick  and 
Weak  in  Body  but  of  Perfect  Mind  and  Memory  and  well  knowing  that  in  a 
short  time  I  must  yield  unto  death  therefore  am  willing  to  settle  my  outward 
affairs  against  my  Final  Change  come  whensoever  it  may  happen  do  therefore 
make  ....  ordain  and  appoint  this  my  last  will  and  testament  in  the  follow- 
ing manner  and  form.     Imprimis  I  will  and  order  all  my  just  debts  to  be  fully 
Satisfied  and  paid  by  my  executors  or  One  of  them  in  Some  Reasonable  time 
after    my    decease.     Item    I   give   and   bequeath   unto   my  only  son  Thomas 
Wickes  my  desk  one  Bed  and  Furniture  my  best  Cart  and  Whe'eles  one  team 
and  Tackling  as  he  shall  Choose  one  Plough  &  harrow  of  Each  Sort  &  Indian 
Jonas  his  time  of  Service  and  my  Negro   Deag  &  my  Negro   boy  Peter  and 
my    Fishing.     Item    I    give    and   bequeath   unto   my   Loving   wife    Jemima 
Wickes  and  to  her  Heirs  and  Assigns  forever  Sixty  Pounds  Current  Lawful 
Money  of  New  York  two  beds  and  furniture,  One  Lott  of  Land  and  Meadow 
which  I  bought  of  James  Oakley  Lying  on  a  Neck  Called  Sentepogue  and 
my  Negro  man  Ceser  and  his  wife  Six  Cows  &  Calves  twenty  Sheep  Six  Cattle 
as  she  shall  Choose  and   So  many  Swine   as  shall  be  thought  needful  for  the 

Family's  use and  One  Cart  and  Wheeles  and  Team  and  Tackling  and 

utencels  such  as  shall  be  needfull  for  her  in  carrying  on  Husbandry  and  my 
will  is  that  my  wife  shall  have  for  the  Family's  use  all  my  English  Hay  all  my 
Grain  in  the  Houses  and  all  that  is  growing  of  Every  Sort  Also  I  give  to 
said  wife  my  Negro  Girl  named  Rachel  after  her  time  of  service  is  Expired 
with  Joseph  Bapet  Also  my  riding  chair  and  young  horse  and  my  Silver 
Tankard  and  Six  Silver  Spoons  and  my  Loom  &  Tackling  &  my  watch. 
Item  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  Daughter  Mary  Wickes  and  to  her  heirs 
and  assigns  forever  Sixty  Pounds  Current  .Money  of  New  York  and  the  Fol- 
lowing pieces  of  Land  I  order  to  be  sold  by  my  Executors  and  the  money 
arising  from  such  sale  to  be  Equally  divided  between  my  wife  and  my  three 
daughters  without  Exceptions  Viz.  One  Piece  of  woodland  lying  between 
Cow  harbour  South  path  and  the  path  that  comes  from  Cornelius  Flartts  to 
town  Lying  in  the  Point  be  it  more  or  less  and  one  half  of  the  Lott  at  the 
west  end  of  the  Town  once  Jonathan  Scudders  and  all  my  Lands  Rights  and 
Interest  in  the  Eastern  Purchase  also  that  piece  of  Land  between  the  roads 
to  Carlls  and  the  road  that  goes  to  Cornelius  Hartts  &  my  will  is  that  if  my 
Daughter  Mary  should  die  without  issue  that  her  part  shall  be  Equally 
divided  between  my  wife  and  two   Surviving  daughters.    .Item   I   give   and 


1  -> 


WICKES    GENEALOGY, 


bequeath  unto  my  two  Grandsons  Eliphalet  Brush  and  Samuel  Allen  One 

Piece  of  wood  Land  Joining  to  the  Land  of  Jeremiah  Sammis&  butting  upon 

the  highway  that  comes  down  to   Kellams  to  be   Equally  divided   between 

them  which  T  give  to  them  and  to  their  Heirs  and  Assigns  forever  &  rnv 

will  is  that  if  Either  of  them  two  Should  die  without-  Issue  that  then  his  part 

should  descend  to  the  next  male  heir  in  the  Family.     Item   I  will  and  order 

my  Executors  hereafter  named   to    Sell  and   dispose  of  all   the  rest   of  my 

Personal  and  moveable  Estate  wheresoever  and  whatsoever  Excepting  Seven 

Cattle  which  is  fatting  for  the  use  of  the  Family  and  all  the  monevs  arising 

from  which  sale  with  all  the  rest  of  my  movable  Estate  after  my  Debts  are 

paid  Excepting  which  is  above  disposed  of.     I  Order  and  give  to  be  Equally 

divided    between    my    wife    and    three    daughters    namely    Margaret    Allen 

Hannah  Brush  and  Mary  YVickes  and  if  my  daughter  Mary  should  happen  to 

die  without  issue  then  her  part  to  be  Equally  divided  as  above  mentioned 

and   my  will  is  that   my  Executors   shall   be   reasonably  rewarded   for  their 

troubles  in  Executing  this  my  will  And  I   do  hereby  Constitute  and  Appoint 

my  Son  in  Law  John  Brush  and  my  only  Son  Thomas  Wickes  to  be  my  sole 

Executors  of  this  my  last  will  and  testament  giving  and  granting  unto  them 

Full  power  and  Authority  (or  Either  of  them)  to  Execute  this  my  last  Will 

and  Testament  and  Every  Article  and  Clause  therein  Contained  and  to  give 

good  and  Authentick  Deeds  for  all  Such  Land  as  I  have  Ordered  to  be  Sold 

&  I  do  hereby  utterly  revoke  all  former  wills  ratifying  and   Confirming  this 

and  no  Other  to  be  my  last  will  and  Testament  the  day   and  year    above 

written. 

ELIPHALET  WICKES  (L.  S.) 

Signed  Sealed  Published  Pronounced  and  declared  By  the  said  Eliphalet 
Wickes  as  his  last  will  and  Testament  in  presence  of  subscribers  who  signed 
as  witnesses  in  the  presence  of  the  Testator 

JOSEPH  LEWIS     ISRAEL  PLATT     SOLOMON  KETCHAM 

Also  the  following  will  : 

I,  Thomas  Wickes,  of  Jamaica  in  Queens  County  and  State  of  New 
York,  do  make  and  publish  this  my  last  will  and  testament,  I  give  and 
bequeath  to  my  daughter  Harriet  all  my  household  and  kitchen  furniture  and 
to  her  heirs.  Also  the  interest  of  five  thousand  dollars  during  her  life.  The 
money  to  be  retained  in  the  hands  of  my  executors  and  laid  out  in  stock  or 
placed  at  interest  on  bond  and  mortgage  at  the  direction  of  my  executors,  and 
the  interest  paid  to  my  said  daughter  as  often  as  they  receive  the  same,  and 
after  her  death  the  said  five  thousand  dollars  to  be  equally  divided  between 


ancient   :  : 


children,  if  she  si         have  At  if  she 

ose   of  the   same   by  Will,  if  she  rerture  it        t 

>e  I  give  the  said  five  thousand  dollars  m  my 
divided,  and  to  the  issue     f     -:h  of  my  child  I   may 

ie  to  take  the  parent'*       ire  the  interest  to  be  paid  to  my  -      _..: 
mav  be  i    irried         it  is  intende  i  for  her  1  not  to  be  sul :  ■:-::  to  her 

band's  debts  nor  to  hi=  control  in   any  <  ay.     I   give  and  bequeath 
grand  children,  Joseph  Lawrence  Hewlett  and   H   n    ;   Hewlett  the  sum  of 
six  thousand  dollars  equally  between  th<  n,  to  be  paid   ::   them  res]  ?ctiv    y 
when  they  arrive  at  lawful  age  or  many,  and  if  of  them  sh< 

:  period  the  survivor  to  h     .-  the  whole,  bu:  if  both  si 
arrive  at  lawful   age  or  marry  then   the  said  six    ti     iisand   dci  md   the 

unexpended  interest  (if  any)  to  be  equally  divided  between   my  :     idren 
mav  be  living-  at  that  time,  and  the  issue  .:"  such      f  mv  children  whc   mav  be 
dead,  such  issue  to  take  the  parent's  sh        the  said  six  thousand    .   liars  tc    be 
retained  in  the  hands  of  my  executors   and    nvesl  six  per  ;.  it  -:    .',:     I 

the  corporation  of  the  City  of  Xe  York  :  u  my  ather  stock  ::  in 
mortgage  security  at  the    discretion     f  mv  executors  the   interest  a 

from  their  respective  shares  to  be  exclusively  applied  t  the  education  of  my 
said  grandchildren  until  in  the  opinion  : :"  my  executors  :.  the  survivor  :: 
them,  their  education  shall  be  finished  i    rhich  i    .■  -.   :        s  applied 

in  such  other  way  for  the      merit  of  my  said  grandch  .  as  my  executors 

of  the  sun'ivor  of  them  may  thin>.  ':  est.  :  gi"r  ::.  i  bequeath  ::  the 
Theological  Seminary  at  Princeton  tb.         undred  dollars  t  :..         the 

permanent  funds  of  that  institution  for  the  support  ::  :  professors  t  r 
paid  within  One  Year  after  my  decc  All  the  res:  residu      and  rerna 

of  my  estate  I   give  and  beqi      th  to   my   s : :  s    Eliphalet    md    Van 
equally  to  be  divided  and  to  the::  heirs  .        ass  °  is  forever. 

It  is  mv  will  in  case  my  or  either  o:  my  s a i _b  children  lie  before  I  do 
leaving  issue  then  and  in  that  case  what  I  have  given  t  l  i  parent  -  give  tc 
the  issue,  such  issue  to  take  the  parent's  share  and  ::  the  heirs  and  assigns  :: 
each  issue.  Lastly  I  hereby  nominate  make  ::::;::::r  md  ap:  i  n:v  -::  is 
Eiiphalet  Wickes  and  Van  Wyck  Wick  ;  executors  tc  this  my  last  wil]  md 
I:::::::;:.:  hereby  revoking  all  former  md     birr  Will   ::  Wills  by  me   at  any 

— 

time  heret::":re  made  and  ieclaring  this  and  this  :i:iy  ::    be  and    :ontam 
last  will  and  testament    In  witness  I  have  hereuntc  set  my  hand 

seal  the  thirteen::,  lay  rf  January  in  the  Year  of  Our  Lord  One  Thousand 
Eight  hundred  and  ninete 

Signed  sealed  published  and  declare  i  by  the  snid  Thomas  Wickes  as 
for  his  last  will  and  testament  in  our  pi    sence  whc  have  subsci names 


34 


WICKES    GENEALOGY. 


as  witnesses  at  his  request  in  his  presence  and  in  the  presence  of  each  other. 

JOHN  FAULKNER.  THOS.  WICKES. 

BENJAMIN   EVERITT. 
JOHN  S.  MESSENGER. 


Extracts  from  the  records  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  Huntington,  made 
Sept.  2,  1 88 1,  for  S.  Wickes,  by  Dr.  G.  B.  Banks,  Clerk  of  Session. 

Members  by  the  name  of  Wickes  when   Rev.  Mr.  Prime  was  ordained, 
Esther  and  Elizabeth  Wickes. 


June  i  723 


Added  during  Mr.  Prime's  ministry  ai 

730,  June  14,  Elnathan, 
724,  April  19,  Elizabeth, 
743,  June  2,  Azariah, 
751,  Aug.  1,  Enoch, 
739,  Nov.  29,  Mary, 
762,  July  29,  Josiah,  Jr., 

Baptisms  of  persons  by  name  of  Wick 

723,  June  23,  Phebe, 

724,  Aug.  2,  Daniel, 

724,  Aug.  9,  Silas, 

725,  April  26,  Hezekiah, 
727,  March  2,  Mary, 

731,  May  9,  Piatt, 

731,  July  28,  Ananias, 

732,  Aug.  27,  Gilbert, 

732,  Jan.  16,  Hannah, 
j},^,  March  18,  Hezekiah, 

733,  July  29,  Enoch, 

734,  May  26,  Margaret, 

735,  April  13,  Josiah, 
735,  July  20,  Elijah, 
735,  Feb.  16,  Hannah, 
yx^,  Nov.  2,  Hannah, 
737,  July  17,  Jesse, 

737,  Sept.  ii,  Philip, 

738,  May  14,  Elizabeth, 


d  recorded  by  him. 

y^y  March  20,  Josiah, 

727,  March  2,  Elizabeth, 
743,  June  2,  Anna, 

730,  June  14,  Miriam. 
750,  Nov.  29,  Mary, 
764,  Oct.  28,  Phebe. 

es  during  Mr.  Prime's  ministry. 

728,  June  5,  John, 

728,  Aug.  1 1,  Stephen, 

729,  Nov.  23,  Elnathan, 

730,  July  5,  Ruth, 

730,  March  8,  Ambrose, 
743,  June  26,  Jonathan, 
743,  Nov.  20.  Jonas, 

743,  Sept.  25,  Mary, 

744,  July  15,  John, 
744,  Nov  4,  Elizabeth, 
744,  Nov.  1 1,  Mary, 
746,  March  2,  Sarah, 

746,  Nov.  9,  Elizabeth, 

747,  Oct.  4,  Martha, 
747,  Oct.  21,  Elizabeth, 

747,  Nov.  5,  Nathaniel, 

748,  Oct.  13,  Esther, 

748,  Oct.  30,  Daniel, 

749,  July  28,  Ebenezer, 


ANCIENT    DOCL 


MENTS. 


1596247 


Marr 


739 
740 

740 

739 
74i 
74? 

74  = 
75i 
753 
754 
754 
754 
755 
756 
757 
756 
757 

75  7 
757 
753 
758 
758 

759 
760 

760 

760 

761 

762 


April  22,  Anna, 
May  25,  Silas, 
Sept.  14,  Thomas, 
Dec.  23,  Elizabeth, 
June  2i,  Moses, 
May  16,  Mary, 
Dec.  15,  Deborah, 
Jan.  20,  Sarah, 
Sept.  30,  Isaac, 
May  12,  John, 
May  24,  Samuel, 
Oct.  13,  Hannah, 
April  20,  David, 
May  30,  Nathaniel, 
March  13,  Daniel, 
July  1 1,  Tappe, 
March  13,  Elizabeth, 
March  13,  Joanna, 
July  24,  Conklin, 
June  15,  Stephen, 
June  30,  Isaac, 
Oct.  22,  Silas, 
Sept.  30,  Phineas, 
Jan.  27,  Mary, 
May  30,  Martha, 
Oct.  5,  Rebecca, 
March  15,  Elizabeth, 
March  7,  Susanna, 


35 


750,  May  3,  Hanna, 

750,  June  24,  Margaret, 

751,  Feb.  3,  Epentus, 
Jan.  26,  Jonah, 
June  14,  William, 
Jan.  5.  Phebe, 
June  1  7,  Mary, 
May  2,  Jonas, 
Aug.  S,  Piatt, 
Oct.  3,  Gilbert, 
March  31,  Joel, 
Dec.  4,  Josiah, 
Sept.  1 3,  Anne, 
April  1  2,  Mary, 
Sept.  2,  Mary, 
Sept.  2,  Sarah, 
Sept.  23,  Sarah, 
Sept.  7,  Hannah, 
Oct.  6th,  Ruth, 
July  24,  Ebenezer, 
Oct.  26,  Seth, 
Oct.  26,  David, 
May  9,  Elizabeth, 
Nov.  2,  Elizabeth, 
Oct.  7,  Jubal, 
June  24,  Keturah, 

773,  July  25,  Esther, 
775,  April  10,  Freelove, 
775,  June  16,  Moses. 


75? 
7'52 

752 

752 
762 

762 

762 

763 
763 
763 
764 
764 
764 
764 

765 

765 
768 
769 
769 
766 
766 
770 
770 


ages 


of  persons  by  name  of  Wickes  during  Mr.  Prime's  ministry. 
June  7,  Cornelius  Hart  and  Elizabeth  Wickes. 
Oct.  24,  John  Wickes  and  Jemima  Conklin. 


726, 
726, 
726,  Nov.  30,  Thomas  Conklin  and  Mary  Wickes 


7*7, 
728 

728, 

729. 
73?, 

732> 


Jan  23,  Silas  Wickes  and  Sarah  Roger; 
March  8,  Stephen  Conklin  and  Martha  Wickes. 
Dec.  27,  Elnathan  Wickes  and  Miriam  Whitman. 
May  30,  Josiah  Weeks  and  Mary  Conklin. 
March  26,  Eliphalet  Wickes  and  Hannah  Piatt. 
June  6,  Samuel  Smith  and  Esther  Wickes. 


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WICKES   GENEALOGY. 

1732,  Dec.  8,  EHphalet  VVickes  and  Jemima  Scudder 
>7o4,  April  9,  Philip  Wickes  and  Mary  Conklin. 
1  734.  Oct.  7,  William  Green  and  Ruth  Wickes. 

1736.  Oct.  15,  Benj.  Cornish  and  Anne  Wickes. 

1737,  March  29,  Jonathan  Wickes  and  Elizabeth  Gates. 
173S.  May  24,  Jacob  Miller  and  Susanna  Wickes. 
173S,  Dec.  4,  Thomas  Wickes  and  Mary  Udall. 

1739.  Feb.  13,  Azariah  Wickes  and  Anne  Whitman  - 
1  74i,  Feb.  iS,  Nath.  Wickes  and  Jemima  Wood. 
1742,  Feb.  2,  Samuel  Wickes  and  Bethiah  VVickes. 

1744.  Jan.  25,  Timothy  Biggs  and  Mary  Wickes. 

1745.  Nov.  28,  Joseph  Gould  and  Phebe  Wickes. 

1749.  Nov.  20,  Joseph  Wickes  and  Mary  Piatt. 

1750.  Dec.  ii,  Daniel  Wickes  and  Rebecca  Wood. 

1 75 1»  July  24,  Samuel  Allen  and  Margaret  Wickes. 
1  75i.  Oct.  30,  Samuel  Ackerly  and  Hannah  Wickes. 
1753.  April  19,  Jonathan  Wickes  and  Anne  Nethenvay. 
1753.  May  29,  Ambrose  Wickes  and  Phgbe  Russels. 
I754-  April  16,  Samuel  Hart  and  Hannah  Wickes. 

1755,  Feb.  4,  Hezekiah  Wickes  and  Lois  Jams. 

1756,  March  2S,  Ezekial  Wickes  and  Sarah  Hevelon. 
1756,  April  5,  Jotham  Wickes  and  Sarah  Hughins. 
1757:  July  27,  Benajiah  Wickes  and  Hannah  Conklin. 
1760,  Jan.  15,  Samuel  Ackerly  and  Elizabeth  Wrickes. 

1760,  Oct.  27,  Samuel  Denton  and  Hannah  Wickes. 

1761,  Aug.  10,  William  Lysaght  and  Jemima  Wickes. 
1  761,  Oct.  12,  Cor.  Stretton  and  Mary  Wickes. 

1762,  May  13,  Thomas  Wickes  and  Sarah  Brush. 
1762,  Aug.  1 8,  Jesse  Brown  and  Mary  Wickes. 

1762,  Dec.  16,  Josiah  Wickes,  Jr.,  and  Hannah  Skidmore. 

1763,  April  17,  Joseph  Tovnsend  and  Margaret  Weekes. 

1763,  Aug.  8,  Jonathan  Wickes  and  Eliz.  Arthur. 

1764,  June  17,  Timothy  Cornish  and  Mary  Wickes. 

1765,  Nov.  iS,  Silas  Wickes  and  Esther  Pine. 

1766,  Jan.  14,  John  Close,  A.  B.  and  Mary  Wickes. 

1767,  Feb.  10,  Josiah  Wickes,  Jr.,  and  Mary  Conklin. 
1770,  April  29,  Silas  Hand  and  Sarah  Wickes. 
1770.  July  15,  David  Smith  and  Sarah  Wickes. 
1770,  Nov.  19,  Lemuel  Wickes  and  Anne  Carpenter. 


ANCIENT    DOCUMENTS. 

1772,  June  4,  Philip  Skidmore  and  Margaret  Wickes. 

1774,  Feb.  10,  Isaac  Kane  and  Rose  Wickes. 

1775,  Jan.  1, "George  Wickes  and  Mary  Kellum, 

1778,  Jan.  22,  Metzer  Carver  and  Phebe  Wickes. 

1779,  Jan.  12,  Jerial  Tilden  and  Eliz.  Wickes. 

Marriages  by  Rev.  Mr.  Close. 

1776,  Dec.  11,  John  Wickes  and  Eliz.  Tucker. 
1767,  March  17,  Penn  Wickes  and  Ruth  Valentine. 
1767,  Sept.  8,  Thomas  Wickes  and  Abigail  Van  Wyck. 


j/ 


Note. — Rev.  Ebenezer  Prime  was  pastor  of  the  Church  from  1723  to  1779.     Rev.  John 
Close  as  his  colleague  from  1766  to  1773.  D.   1813. 


MONUMENTAL  INSCRIPTIONS. 

HUNTINGTON  GRAVEYARD. 

The  burial  place  at  Huntington  is  the  same  now  as  that  used  by  its 
earliest  fathers.  It  is  a  beautiful,  elevated  site  near  the  center  of  t  he  village,  and 
bounded  on  one  side  by  the  main  street.  During  the  Revolutionary  War  the 
Town  was  occupied  by  soldiers  of  Great  Britain,  under  the  command  of 
Col.  Benj.  Thompson  (Count  Rumford).  He  erected  block  houses  and 
barracks  for  his  troops  upon  the  burying  ground.  The  graves  were,  many  of 
them,  leveled,  and  the  tombstones  used  for  building  their  lire  places  and  ovens. 
The  historian  who  records  this,  says  that  he  "  PI  as  often  heard  old  men 
testify  from  the  evidence  of  their  own  senses,  that  they  had  seen  the  loaves  of 
bread  drawn  out  of  these  ovens,  with  the  reversed  inscriptions  of  the  tomb 
stones  of  their  friends  on  the  lower  crust."  (Prime's  History  of  L.  I.) 

This  writer  visited  this  twice-consecrated  place  of  the  dead  Aug.  25, 
1875,  and  copied  the  following  inscriptions. 


First  row. 


Here  lieth  the  body  of 

Eliphalet  Wickes,  Esq.,  died 

June  ye  30  A.  D. 

1 761  in  the  54th.  year  of  his  age. 

Jemima,  wife  of 

Eliphalet  Wickes,  Esq.  who  departed 

this  life  Nov.  3,  1  776, 

aged  68  years. 


Note. — These  four  stones  evidently  mark  the  burial  place  of  Thomas  Vv7ickes  (3)  and 
his  sons  Thomas  Wickes  and  Eliphalet  Wickes  of  the  fourth  generation.  There  is  a  vacant 
space  next  to  the  grave  of  the  elder  Thomas  Wickes  and  nearer  to  the  top  of  the  hill  where 
possibly  are  the  unmarked  graves  of  Thomas  Wickes  (2)  and  his  wife  and  Thomas  Wickes  (1) 
and  his  wife.     The  vacant  space  is  about  in  the  center  of  the  graveyard. 


MONUMENTAL    INSCRIPTIONS. 

Here  lyes  the  body  of  Mr.  Thomas  Wickes,  Jr. 

son  of  Capt.  Thomas  Wickes, 

who  died  Dec.  20.  1  749 

in  the  46th.  year  of  his  age. 

Here  lies  buried  the  body  of  Capt.  Thomas  Wickes, 

who  departed  this  life 

Oct.  the  24th.,  A.  D. 

1  749,  in  the  74th.  year  of  his  age. 


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Another  row.1 


In  memory  of  Bethsheba,  wife  of 

Capt.  Thomas  Wickes, 

She  died  Sept.  9,  1763, 

in  the  39th.  year  of  her  age. 

In  memory  of  Capt.  John  Wickes,  who 

died  June  5,   1 801,  in 

the  79th.  year  of  his  age. 

In  memory  of  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Wickes, 

wife  of  Capt.  John  Wickes, 
who  departed, [stone  broken]. 

Here  lies  the  body  of 
Hannah  Wickes,  wife  to  Eliphalet  Wickes, 

who  died 1 75 1 , 

in  the of age. 

In  memory  of  Ezekiel  W7icks,  who 

died  March  26,  1S08, 

age  yS  years. 

In  memory  of  Sarah  relict  of  Ezekial 
Wicks  who  died  Dec.  7,  1808,  age  72. 


Note. — '  Deaths  recorded  by  the  Rev.  John  Close. 

Margaret  Wickes  wife  of  to  ye  late  Capt.  Thomas  Wickes  Died  Sept.  iS,  1767,  aged  about 
85  years. 

July  7,  1771,  Nathaniel,  son  of  John  Wickes. 
Jan.  8,  1773,  the  second  wife  of  Josiah  Wickes,  Jr. 


40  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

Another  row. 

In  memory  of  Sarah, 

the  wife  of  Gilbert  Wickes, 

who  died  May  4,  1792,  aged  62. 

In  Memory  of  Mrs.  Sarah  Wicks, 

wife  of  Gilbert  Wicks,  Jr. 

who  died  March  12,  1795,  aged 

36  years  and  12  days. 

An  old  tombstone,  looking  as  if  it  might  be  the  oldest  stone  in  the  yard 
has  Wickes  upon  it  in  full, — all  else  is  obliterated. 

The  following  inscription  was  copied  by  the  writer,  in  Aug.  1875,  from  a 
well  preserved  tombstone  in  Bridgehampton,  L.  I.  It  stands  in  the  exact 
middle  of  a  cultivated  field  without  the  surroundings  of  a  burial  place. 

Here 

was layed 

The  body  of  Mr. 

John  Wicks,  Esq.,  who  died  Jan. 

the  16,  Anno,  1719  in  the  59th.  year 

of  his  age. 

Nothing  is  known  concerning  him  whose  memory  is  thus  perpetuated, 
except  by  the  tradition  which  is  accepted  by  the  people.  It  is  substantialiy 
as  follows.  That  he  was  a  man  of  property,  and  had  a  large  amount  of  land, 
was  a  great  hunter,  kept  a  house  of  entertainment  which  was  celebrated 
the  country  around  for  its  good  cheer,  and  was  the  resort  for  those  from  a 
distance  who  were  fond  of  hunting  sports.  He  was  an  infidel,  and  a  reviler 
of  religious  things.  He  had  no  sons,  but  two  daughters,  who  were  to  inherit 
his  property  upon  the  condition  that  he  should  not  be  buried  in  a  churchyard, 
but  in  the  center  of  the  field  where  his  dust  now  lies.  The  tradition  further 
is  that  some  years  after  his  burial,  the  daughters,  desirous  of  giving  his  remains 
a  more  christian  sepulchre,  made  an  attempt  to  remove  them  to  the 
graveyard.  After  the  excavation  for  the  purpose  had  progressed  to  a  few  feet 
in  depth,  myriads  of  ants  appeared  which  so  riddled  the  earth  that,  as  it  was 
removed,  it  immediately  fell  from  the  sides  and  filled  in  again,  by  the  action 
of  the  insects.  Those  engaged  in  the  excavation,  after  a  struggle  to  succeed 
in   their  work,  were   compelled  to   abandon    it.     Mythical  as  the  story  is,  it 


MONUMENTAL    INSCRIPTIONS. 


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illustrates  the  readiness  of  the  popular  mind  to  accept  the  fact  that  somehow 
the  devil  takes  care  of  its  own. 

The  inscription  reveals  that  he  was  born  in  1661.  He  was  therefore 
contemporary  with  Thomas  and  John  YYickes,  grantees  of  Huntington,  by 
Fletcher's  Patent  of  1694.  There  is  nothing  in  our  record  which  forbids  the 
possibility  of  his  being  the  latter  named  John.  We  think  the  probabilities 
are  against  the  supposition,  as  John,  the  justice,  was  in  Huntington  and  took 
acknowledgments  as  late  as  1  730. 

INSCRIPTIONS  AT  JAMAICA,  LONG  ISLAND. 


In 

memory  of  Thomas  YYickes1 

who  departed  this  life 

Nov.  30,  1 819, 

in  the  75th  year  of  his  age. 

In 


In 

memory  of  Abigail, 

wife  of 

Thomas  Wickes, 

who  died  March  15,  18 16, 

aged  68  years. 


memory  of  Maria  Wickes 

wife  of 

Thomas  S.  Wickes, 

who  departed  this  life  April  9,  1S21, 

aged  22  years,  and  4  months. 

For  I  know  whom  I  have  believed,  and  am   persuaded  that  he  is  able  to  keep 
that  which  I  have  committed  unto  him  against  that  day. — 11  Tim,  1-12. 


Martha  Wickes, 

wife  of 
Eliphalet  Wickes 

died  May  7,  1S21 
aged  57  years,  and  9  months. 


Van  Wyck  Wickes 
born  April  29,  1  779 
died  June  13,  1865. 


In  memory  of 

Henry  Walter 

son  of 

Harriet  and  Henry  Punnett 

who  departed  this  life 

Sept.  20,  1831,  aged  14  months. 

Eliza 

wife  of 

Van  Wyck  Wickes,  born 

Dec.  15,  17S9,  died  May  24,  1864. 

Entered  into  Rest. 


Note: — '  He  was  born  Aug.  10,  1744. 


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WICKES   GENEALOGY. 


In  memory 

of  Harriet,  daughter 

of 

VahWyck  and  Eliza  Wickes, 

who  departed  this  life, 
Sept.  30,  1S31,  aged  2  years. 

Elizabeth  H.,  daughter 

of 

Van  Wyck  and  Eliza  Wickes, 

died  at  Troy 

Aug.  13,   1 85 1,  aged  26. 


Van  Wyck,  son 

of 

Van  Wyck  and  Eliza  Wickes 

died  Oct.  8,  1828, 

aged  16  months. 


(Copied  June  20,  1881.) 


In  memory 

of 

Lucius  T.  Rossiter 

born  Oct.  2,  1809 

died  Aug.  24,  1S79. 


Anna 

daughter  of 

L.  T.  and  Mary  W.  Rossiter, 

died  Jan.  7,  1856, 
aged  2  years  and  3  months. 


Marv  Wickes 

daughter  of 

L.  T.  and  Mary  W.  Rossiter, 

died  Feb.  13,  1852, 

aged  2  years,  9  months,  15  days. 


Arthur  Lawrence 

son  of 

L.  T.  and  Mary  W.  Rossiter 

died  Aug.  11.  1858, 
aged  9  months  and  2  days. 


Here  lies  the  body 

of  Stephen  Herriman, 

who  deceased  July  the  3, 

Anno  dom.  1770  in  ye  41  year 


of  his  age. 


As  fleeting  shadows  pass  in  haste 
On  evening  sun's  decline 
So  all  the  glory  mortals  have 
Will  shortly  be  as  mine. 


Here  lies  the  body  of 

Mrs.  Martha,  wife  of  Mr.  Stephen 

Herriman,  who  afterwards  married 

Mr.  John  Smith,  and  died  Jan.  7,  1  788, 

in  the  57th.  year  01  her  age. 

Children  weep  not  for  me 
For  all  your  tears  are  vain 
Think  only  on  the  Lord 
That  we  shall  meet  again. 


MONUMENTAL    INSCRIPTIONS. 


43 


In  memory  of 

Elizabeth  Herriman,1 

died  Dec.  29,  1S47, 

aged  87  years,  11  months  and 

26  days. 


In  memory 

of  Sarah  Smith,8  who  died  Feb.  18, 

1857  in  the  95th.  year  of  her  age. 


Margaret  Herriman 

born 

March  6,  1796 

died 
March  27,  1851. 


Memory  of  Stephen  Herriman,  Jr. 

who  died  May  26,   1792,  aged  35 

years,  and    1 9  days. 

Come  hither  all  ye  tender  souls 

who  know 
The    heights    of  fondness    and. 

the  depths  of  woe, 
All    conquering    death    by    his 

resistless  power, 
Has   snatched    a  youth    in    an 

untimely  hour. 

Farewell  vain  world,  I've  had  enough 

of  thee, 
And  now  am    careful  of  what  thou 

sayest  of  me, 
Thy    smiles    I    could    not,    nor   thy 

frowns  I  fear, 
My  days  are  past,  my  head  lies  quiet 

here. 


In  memory  of 

James  Herriman,3  who 

departed  this  life  Oct.  6,  1801, 

in  his  40th  year. 


Magdalene  Herriman5 

was  born  Nov.  27,  1769, 

died  Nov.  19,  1841. 


s 


John  He/fiman* 
born  July  30,  1797, 
died  July  25,  1835. 


Note: — 'The  widow  of  Stephen  Herriman,  Jr. 
J  A  sister  of  Mrs.  Eliz.  Herriman  ;  she  was  unmarried. 
'  Son  of  Stephen  (2). 

4  His  widow,  Mary  Ann  Bryer,  died  March  29,   1873,  aged  73-     Her  monument  is  near 
her  husband's. 

'  Wife  of  Tames. 


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WICKES    GENEALOGY 


John  Yates  Cebra, 
born  April  8,  i  786, 
died  Sept.  14,  1855. 


Mary  Herriman  Cebra, 

wife  of  John  Yates  Cebra, 

born  Feb.  27,  1  786, 

died  May  S,  1S55. 

God  is  love  and  doeth  all  things  well. 


Martha 

wife  of 

Benjamin  Wright,  and 

daughter  of  James  and 

Magdalene  Herriman, 

born  Oct.  29,  1  789, 

died  Oct.  15,  1853. 


The  following  are  in  one  enclosure  at  Jamaica  Graveyard  ;  enclosed  by 
an  iron  fence  erected  by  Nehemiah  Denton,  of  Gowanas,  Brooklyn. 


In  memory 

of 

Janet  (2)  wife  of  Nehemiah  Denton, 

died  Dec.  8,  1862,  aged  65  years. 


Nehemiah  Denton, 

died  Dec.  27,  1844,  aged 

71  years,  9  months  and  24 

days. 


Elizabeth 

(1)  wife  of  Nehemiah  Denton, 

died  Sept.  2,  1799,  aged 

24  years.     No  issue. 


Mary,  wife  of  Samuel  D. 
Wilkins,  and  daughter  of 
Nehemiah  Denton,  died  April  9, 
1833.  35  years.1 


Eliza,  daughter  of 

Elizabeth  and  Nehemiah  Denton 

died  Sept.  28,  1800,  aged  9  months. 


Note  : — 'Issue  of  first  marriage. 


MONUMENTAL    INSCRIPTIONS. 


45 


INSCRIPTIONS  ON  STONES  IN  LOT  90,  SEC.  F. 
IN  OAKWOOD  CEMETERY,  TROY,  NEW  YORK. 


Eliza  M.  Allen 
widow  of  the  late 
doct.  Aldis  Allen 

daughter  of 
Eliphalet  Wickes 

Died  Sept.  9th, 

1835 
aged  34  years, 

7  mos. 

and  4  days. 


Eliphalet  Wickes 

born  in 
Huntington,  L.I. 

April  1 ,  1  769 

Died  in  this  City 

June  7,  1850 

in  the  S2d  year 

of  his  age 


Harriett 

wife  of 

Henry  Punnett 

and  daughter  of 

Eliphalet  Wickes 

Died 

May  14,  1856 

aged  28  years 

and  1 1  months. 


Anna 

wife  of 

Henry  Punnett 

Died  Jan.  9th, 

1842 

Aged  2S  rears 

and 

4  months 


Henry  Sylvanus 

Cordelia  P. 

son  of 

daughter  of 

Elizabeth, 

Thomas  S.  and  Julia 

Thomas  S.  and  Julia 

daughter  of  Henry 

Wickes 

Wickes 

and  Harriet  Wickes 

Died  at  Albany 

Died  in  Ballston 

Punnett 

Dec.  27,  1827 

Dec.  16,  1845 

Died  Aug.  27,  1S31 

aged  2  years  and 

aged   1 1  years 

aged  11  mos.  13  days 

2  mos. 

and  8  mos. 

This  lot  is  in  the  name  of  "Eliphalet  WT.  Blatchford."  The  lot  was 
selected  and  purchased  by  me,  and  the  remains  removed  from  the  old  cemetery 
in  Troy,  and  here  interred  in  1896. 


E.  W.  BLATCHFORD. 


WICKES    GENEALOGY. 


\ 


IN.  MOUND  CEMETERY,  MARIETTA,  OHIO. 


Rev.  Thomas  Wickes,  D.  D. 
Died 

Nov.  10,  1870 

aged 

56  years 

Asleep  in  Jesus. 


Mary  Antoinette 

wife  of 

Rev.  Thomas  Wickes 

Pastor  of  the 

First  Congregational 

Church  of  Marietta 

Died 

May  30  1S4S 

aged  31  years 

Erected  by  the  ladies  of  the 
1  st  Congregational  Church  of  Marietta 


Amelia 

Daughter  of 

Thomas  &  M.  A. 

Wickes 

Died  Sept.  18  1S51 

Aged  7  years 


WICKES    GENEALOGY. 


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COPY  OF  RECORD  IN  BIBLE  FORMERLY  IN 
POSSESSION  OF  THOMAS  W.  BLATCHFORD. 

Harriet  Wickes 

Presented  by  her  father  Thomas  Wickes 

January  i  2th  1S02 

The  record  is  written  in  one  hand,  all  but  Hannah's  death.  The  record 
of  the  death  of  Thomas' and  Abigail  Wickes  is  in  my  father's  handwriting. 
The  handwriting  of  the  record,  and  the  presentation  as  above,  seems  to  be 
the  same.  H.  W.  B. 

CHILDREN  OF  THOMAS  AND  ABIGAIL  WICKES. 


Scudder  was  born  September  9th,  1767. 
Eliphalet  was  born  April  1st,  1769. 
Francis  was  born  October  25th,  1770. 
Van  Wyck  was  born  March  4th,  1773. 
Thomas  was  born  March  25th,  1775. 
Francis  was  born  March  30th,  1777. 
Van  Wyck  was  born  April  29th,  1779. 
Hannah  was  born  December  5th,  1781. 
Thomas  was  born  March  19th,  1784. 
Scudder  was  born  May  27th,  1786. 
Harriet  was  born  May  25th,  1  7S9. 

Scudder  the  elder  died  September  28th,  1776. 
Francis  the  elder  died  September  30th,  1776. 
Van  Wyck  the  elder  died  October  2nd,  1776. 
Francis  the  younger  died  February  6th,  1778. 
Thomas  the  elder  died  August  14th,  1779. 
Scudder  the  younger  died  August  26th,  1787. 
Thomas  the  younger  died  October  12th,  1801 
Hannah  died  March  8th,  1816.  (in  pencil). 


Thomas  Wickes  Sr. 

was  born 
August  2 1  st,   1744. 

Abigail  Wickes 
was  born  Sept.,  1  748. 


Abigail  Wickes  died 
15  March,  1816. 

Thomas  Wickes  died 
30  November,  1819. 

(in  pencil) 
at  Norwalk,  Conn. 


48  I  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 


HISTORICAL    NOTICES 

MAJOR  THOMAS  WICKES 

Thomas  Wickes  (4)  son  of  Eliphalet  (1)  and  Jemima  Scudder,  born  in 
Huntington,  L.  I.,  1  744,  married  Sarah  Brush.  She  died  in  a  year  after  their 
marriage  without  living  issue.  He  married  (2)  Abigail,  daughter  of  Barent 
VanWyck,  of  Oyster  Bay.  He  inherited  the  real  estate  of  his  father,  which  he 
occupied  till  the  war  of  1776.  He  was  in  that  year  52  years  of  age.  and  had 
acquired  position  and  influence  in  the  large  County  of  Suffolk,  which 
embraced  as  it  does  now,  the  eastern  portion  of  the  Island.  At  the  breaking- 
out  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  he  took  an  active  and  decided  part  in  opposing 
the  oppressive  measures  of  the  British  Parliament.  He  was  elected  chairman 
of  the  committee  of  Safety  for  the  Town  of  Huntington.  His  acquaintance 
with  the  people,  his  stoutness  of  purpose,  and  his  devotion  to  promoting  the 
rising  liberties  of  his  country  were  efficient  in  advancing  the  growth  and 
steadfastness  of  the  patriot  party.  His  efforts  were  not  confined  to  his  own 
county,  but  were  exercised  for  the  cause  of  liberty  throughout  the  island.  He 
held  the  office  of  Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Safety  till  after  the  British 
had  obtained  possession  of  Long  Island.  He  was  in  the  company  of  General 
Woodhull,  as  captain  of  the  5th  Company  of  Col.  Smith's  Regiment,  in 
Jamaica  just  before  the  attack  upon  them  by  the  light-horse  of  Col.  De  Lancy, 
by  whom  they  were  cut  to  pieces.  Mr.  Wickes  urged  Woodhull  to  leave 
Jamaica,  as  the  enemy  was  in  large  numbers  west  of  him,  and  rapidly 
advancing.  He  made  efforts  to  showr  him  the  imprudence  of  exposing 
himself  and  his  few  men  to  certain  destruction.  The  General  replied  that  he 
had  been  ordered  to  the  post  by  the  convention  at  White  Plains,  and  that  he 
felt  it  to  be  his  duty  to  remain  till  ordered  to  leave.  Mr.  Wickes  finding  his 
persuasions  to  withdraw  ineffectual,  resolved  to  remain  with  him  and  abide 
the  result.  The  General  urged  that  it  was  not  his  place,  that  he  was  needed 
in    Suffolk  County  and   must   leave  him,   and   look    to   the   welfare    of   the 


THOMAS    WICKES,  49 

common  cause  and  the  safety  of  the  people  on  the  eastern  end  of  the  Island. 
Mr.  Wickes  accordingly  left  him  about  two  hours  before  the  attack  upon 
the  patriot  band,  and  its  tragic  result. 

Soon  after  this,  abandoning  all  hope  of  doing  anything  for  the  cause  of 
liberty  by  remaining  on  the  island,  and  resolved  not  to  accept  the  protection 
proffered  by  Lord  Howe,  by  taking  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  British 
Crown,  he  determined  to  abandon  his  estate  and  give  himself  to  the  service  of 
his  country.  With  his  family  and  two  wagon  loads  of  moveables,  and  very 
little  ready  money,  he  embarked  upon  a  boat  in  Huntington  Bay  just  ready 
to  cross  the  Sound  to  Norwalk,  Conn.,  where  a  detachment  of  American 
troops  was  stationed,  having  abandoned  all  else  that  he  possessed.  He 
found  himself  within  a  few  hours  at  Norwalk,  with  his  wife  and  five  young 
children,  early  in  September  1776.  (The  Battle  of  Long  Island  was  fought 
on  the  27th.  of  Aug.) 

The  dysentery  was  prevalent  in  Norwalk  in  a  mortal  form  among  the 
soldiers  and  people  when  the  family  of  our  devoted  patriot  landed  among 
them.  His  family  were  all  affected  by  the  disease.  Three  of  his  children  fell 
victims  to  it  within  four  days,  and  were  buried  in  one  grave,  aged  respectively 
9,  5  and  3  years.     His  own  life  was  in  great  jeopardy. 

He  soon  removed  from  Norwalk  to  the  headquarters  of  the  American 
Army  at  Fishkill.  He  immediately  entered  the  service  in  the  Quarter- 
master's department,  with  a  rank  of  major.  Here  he  remained  throughout 
the  war  and  until  the  troops  were  formally  disbanded  in  17S3.  His  wife  and 
two  remaining  children  (one  of  whom  died  soon  after  their  arrival  at  Fishkill) 
exchanged  their  comfortable  home  in  Huntington  for  the  Barracks,  where 
she  boarded  the  soldiers  till  their  final  dispersion  to  their  free  homes  in  1  7S3. 

*The  writer  remembers  his  patriotic  grandmother  as  she  looked  in  1S16, 
a  short  time  before  her  death.  Though  he  was  but  three  years  old,  she  was 
photographed  on  his  memory.  With  vivid  distinctness  he  recalls  her  tall, 
erect,  symmetrical  figure,  her  delicate,  expressive  features,  her  head  dressed  in  a 
close  fitting  (Quaker)  cambric  cap,  a  white  kerchief  around  her  neck  laid  in 
folds  clown  the  open  front  of  her  dress  to  the  waist.     Though  her  form  and 


*Note:— By  S.  Wickes,  Aug.  8,  1SS1. 

I  had  an  interview  a  few  days  since  with  an  aged  lady  whom  I  had  not  known  before, 
Mrs.  Van  Wyck,  widow  of  Joshua  Van  Wyck,  of  Long  Island.  She  is  a  daughter  of 
Whitehead  Hewlett,  deceased,  who  lived  when  she  was  young  across  the  Bay  and  opposite 
Little  Neck.  She  remarked  to  me  that  she  well  remembered  my  Grandmother  Wickes,  that 
she   used    to  cross  the  Bay  frequently  when  she  was  a  girl,   to  visit   Miss  Harriet,  and   to 


50  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

height  were  different,  her  features  and  form  of  faee  have  been  remembered  by 
him  as  like  those  of  her  grand-daughter,  Frances,  daughter  of  Eliphalet  ( :). 

Three  children  were  born  in  the  Barracks,  viz :  Frances,  who  died  at  10 
months,  VanWyck  and  Hannah.  The  two  latter  with  Eliphalet,  returned 
with  their  parents  to  their  old  home  in   Huntington. 

Major  Wickes  was  a  member  of  the  State  Legislature  from  the  for- 
mation of  the  State  government  in  i  776,  to  the  close  of  the  war.  As  elections 
could  not  be  held-  on  Long  Island,  and  in  the  southern  counties 
occupied  by  the  enemy,  representatives  were  appointed  by  special  ordinance. 
They  were  called  ordinance  members.  His  acquaintance  with  the  people 
of  Long  Island  and  their  confidence  in  him  made  him  a  valuable  aid  10 
Washington  and  Governor  Clinton,  with  each  of  whom  he  maintained 
confidential  relations.  He  was  frequently  sent  to  Long  Island  to  obtain 
such  information  as  might  be  of  service.  He  crossed  the  Sound  from 
Norwalk  at  night,  remained  in  concealment  during  the  day,  and  at  night 
visited  those  whom  he  knew  to  be  the  friends  of  the  patriot  cause.  When  the 
fact  was  made  known  to  his  co-patriots,  that  "Wickes"  was  there,  they 
collected  from  many  miles  around,  at  night  to  see  him  and  confer  with  him. 
During  one  of  these  visits,  being  desirous  of  learning  of  some  of  his  wife's 
relations,  all  of  whom  were  tories,  he  went  one  bright  moonlight  night  to  his 
own  house  in  Huntington.  His  property  after  he  left  it  had  been  taken 
possession  of  by  his  wife's  brother,  who  was  in  the  British  service  as  captain  of 
the  King's  Militia,  who  occupied  it  and  appropriated  all  its  emoluments 
during  all  the  years  of  the  war.  Major  Wickes  was  on  horse  back.  Fie  rode 
to  the  door  and  knocked  upon  it  with  the  butt  of  his  pistol.  His  brother-in- 
law  appeared  at  the  window  and  enquired  who  was  there.  Wickes  replied 
and  asked  him  to  call  up  the  family  and  come  to  the  door.  They 
did  so,  when  he  withdrew  to  a  convenient  distance  and  held  a  conversation 
with  them.  He  was  earnestly  urged  to  dismount  and  spend  the  night  with 
them,  but  not  willing  to  risk  his  personal  liberty,  he  declined  their  invitation. 


"Hear  her  play  on  the  piano",  a  rare  instrument  at  the  time.  "Did  you  read  my  description 
of  my  grandmother  as  I  remember  her  when  I  was  three  years  old  ?•"  "Yes,  and  it  exactly 
describes  her.  It  is  just  as  I  remember  her.  She  was  a  woman  of  great  decision  and  self 
reliance  and  of  great  influence  over  her  family." 

I  did  not  feel  at  liberty  to  ask  Mrs.  Van  Wyck  her  age,  but  I  was  satisfied  that  this 
testimony  was  authentic,  when  she  said,  "I  knew  your  father.  I  was  at  the  Neck  one  Sunday 
morning  when  your  father  drove  from  the  house  with  his  pair  of  bay  ponies,  before  a  little 
green  wagon,  and  Miss  Harriet  and  I  laughingly  joked  him,  as  we  knew  that  he  was  going  to 
see  his  girl  at  Jamaica." 


THOMAS    WICKES.  51 

After  a  short   interview  in   which   he  made  such  inquiries  as  he  desired,  he 
withdrew. 

It  is  worthy  of  remark  here  that  in  the  Presidential  canvass  for  the 
second  term  of  Jackson's  Administration,  the  writer  of  this  was  living  in  New 
York,  when  a  Democratic  mass  meeting  was  held  in  the  park.  A  son  of  a 
(tory)  brother  of  this  British  Captain  was  the  Chairman  of  the  meeting.  One 
of  the  resolutions  adopted  at  the  same,  boasted  of  their  fathers  who  had 
fought  and  bled  for  their  Country's  cause,  and  gloried  in  being  the  sons  of  such 
patriot  sires. 

Wickes  was  also  commissioned  during  these  visits  to  Long  Island  by 
Governor  Clinton  to  borrow  money  for  the  use  of  the  Government,  which  he 
obtained  to  a  very  considerable  amount* 

At  the  close  of  the  War  our  patriot  ancestor  returned  to  his  estate  in 
Huntington  with  his  family.  It  was  much  run  down,  its  stock  greatly 
reduced  and  its  attractions  gone.  He  sold  it  and  removed  to  a  farm  which 
he  owned  at  Huntington  South  (now  Babylon).  He  received  from 
Governor  Clinton,  the  appointment  of  High  Sheriff  of  Suffolk  County,  being 
the  first  incumbent  of  the  office  in  that  County  after  the  War.  He  held  the 
appointment  for  eight  years  with  an  intermission  of  four  years.  During  this 
term  he  held  a  high  place  in  the  esteem  and  confidence  of  the  people. 

He  retired  from  public  life  in  1795,  when  he  sold  his  property  in 
Babylon  and  purchased  Little  Neck,  a  tract  of  three  hundred  acres  in  the 
Township  of  Flushing.  Here  he  remained  till  1813,  when  he  sold  this 
valuable  property  and  removed  to  Jamaica  where  he  lived  till  his  death  in 
1 819.     Fie  left  an  estate  of  $40,000. 

He  made  a  profession  of  his  faith  in  Christ  in  the  later  years  of  his  life, 
and  died  in  the  peace  of  the  Gospel.  His  remains  with  those  of  his  faithful 
wife,  who  had  three  years  preceeded  him,  repose  in  the  old  burial  place  at 
Jamaica. 

(Newspaper  Notice). 

"Another  Revolutionary  patriot  gone.  Died  at  Jamaica,  Nov.  30,  1819, 
Major  Thomas  Wickes,  aged  80." 


*Note. — Journals  of  the  Provincial  Congress,  Vol.   1,  page  471;  Vol.  2,  pages  141  and 
173- 


52  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

MISCELLANEOUS     EXTRACTS. 

• 

Hunting-ton,  Jan.  12,  1776. 
Sir: — We  are  to  inform  you  we  received  the  powder  sent  over  here  by 
Col.  Drake,  hut  Mr.  Smith  has  not  yet  come  or  sent  for  it.  As  there  is  a 
number  of  commissions  wanting,  please  to  convey  them  to  us  by  the  bearer 
Mr.  Piatt  or  some  other  safe  hand,  viz:  John  Buffet,  Capt;  Isaac  Thompson, 
First  Lieutenant,  Joseph  Ketchem,  Ensign,  for  the  fourth  Company,  Piatt 
Veal,  Capt;  Mitchel  Ilealt,  First  Lieutenant;  Isaac  Dennis,  Second  Lieuten- 
ant; Jacob  Conklin  Ensign,  for  the  fifth  Company,  all  of  the  1st  Regiment. 
We  are  sir,  your  humble  servant, 

THOMAS  WICKES, 

Chairman. 
To  Pierre  VanCortland,  Esq., 

Chairman. 

(Journal  Pro.  Congress,  Vol.  2,  p.  141  &  173.) 

Huntington,  April  8,  1776. 
Gent : — 

We  have  just  received  intelligence  that  there  is  a  fleet  of  thirty  sail  of 

square  rigged  vessels  been  seen  off  between  Cray  Neck  and  Edens  Neck  and 

we  thought  it  best  to  send  you  the  earliest  intelligence.     We  shall  watch  their 

motion,  and  as  soon  as  we  can  discover  their  intention,  we  shall  send  you 

further  intelligence.     We  are  mustering  our  militia  and  shall  do   the  best  in 

our  power. 

We  are  Gent, 

Your  humble  servants, 

THOMAS  WICKES, 

Chairman. 
P.  S.     About  seven  in  the  evening  we  received  the  intelligence. 

June  3,  1776.  Philip  Youngs,  Counterfeiter,  was  sent  in  care  of  Thomas 
Wickes  and  Eliphalet  Brush,  and  in  Nov.  1 776,  Thomas  Wickes  received 
from  Congress  £4.,  16s,  for  apprehending  the  counterfeiters  of  continental 
currency  at  Cold  Spring  in  the  preceeding  May.     (Vol.  1,  p  471). 

After  the  War  (1783),  Rev.  John  Close,  brother-in-law  of  Thomas  Wickes, 
writes  to  Governor  Clinton  from  Norwalk,  Aug.  29:  I  am  on  my  return 
to  Long  Island.  On  the  27  inst.  a  body  of  British  troops  came  into 
Huntington  headed  by  Israel  Youngs,   250   foot  and   30  horse — commanded 


THOMAS    WICKES. 


53 


by  a  Major  of  the  336th.  Regiment,  named,  I  think  Danzem.  Youngs  is 
taking  up  a  number  of  the  inhabitants  under  pretence  that  they  had  robbed 
and  injured  him  and  other  tories.  After  Suffolk  County  had  been 
evacuated,  some  of  the  tories  that  were  left  behind,  and  had  cut  off  wood  on 
Major  Wickes'  place  and  were  disposing  of  their  property,  he  demanded 
security,  and  took  some  of  the  goods  for  that  purpose,  making  an  inventory 
and  giving  it  to  the  President  of  the  Village  Justices.  A  few  nights  after 
the  Huntington  men  in^  frolic  impudently  plundered  some  of  their  people, 
which  greatly  enraged  them.  The  principal  people  in  Huntington  met  and 
inquired  into  it,  and  did  all  in  their  power  to  suppress  such  proceedings.  Mr. 
Wickes  fears  this  last  affair  may  be  reported  as  being  connected  with  what  he 
did.  He  would  not  have  taken  that  step  but  he  supposed  Civil  Government 
would  be  established  in  a  few  days." 

Major  Wickes  writes  to  Governor  Clinton,  from  Huntington,  Sept.  23 
1783: 

"On  the  19th  of  Aug.,  I  was  informed  that  (certain  persons  named  had 
been  plowing,  sowing,  and  cutting  my  wood.  These  and  other  tories  had 
collected  at  the  Cove  armed,  so  to  oppose  any  who  demanded  satisfaction  for 
the  damages  they  had  done.  Information  was  now  given  that  there  were  two 
noted  villains  with  them,  and  the  committee  appointed  to  take  up  vagrants 
and  disorderly  persons  got  me  to  go  with  the  inhabitants.  I  did  so,  but  found 
not  the  two  persons,  but  some  property  (of  the  persons  alluded  to  above). 
I  seized  and  inventoried  it  in  presence  of  witnesses  and  deposited  it  with  the 
President  of  the  Justices  of  the  Town.  ...  I  told  the  men  to  give  me 
security  to  appear  at  Court,  and  they  should  have  their  things. 

For  the  above  proceedings  the  British  Governor,  Carlton,  has  ordered 
troops  to  Huntington,  to  arrest  all  those  cognizant  of  the  seizure.  They  put 
several  on  shipboard  to  send  to  New  York  for  trial.  Israel  Youngs,  as 
noted  a  villain  as  any  on  earth,  says  he  was  robbed  and  knocked  down,  and 
knows  the  people  who  did  it,  but  no  one  believes  him.  He  wants  to  extort 
money  from  those  he  accuses  of  it.  Two  are  taken  up  but  can  prove  an 
alibi,  and  yet  they  are  confined  on  shipboard.  Will  you  help  them  ?  You 
will  have  weight  with  Carlton.  Mrs.  Wickes'  health  does  not  permit  me  to 
wait  on  you." 

"  Suffolk  County,  in  olden  times."  A  newspaper  sketch  by  Henry 
Onderdonk,  Jr. 


54  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

ELIPHALET  WICKES  0). 

The  second  son  of  Thomas  (4)  was  seven  years  of  age  when  in  1776  he 
exchanged  the  quiet  scenes  of  his  native  home  for  a  seven  years  experience  in 
the  soldier's  barracks  at  Fishkill.  That  he  was  a  trusty  boy  and  capable  of 
assuming  responsibilities  appears  from  the  fact  that  his  father  employed  him 
as  an  express  rider  from  headquarters  to  various  points  on  the  shore  of  Long 
Island  Sound  and  east  of  it.  He  was  favored  with  the  confidence  of  the 
Commander  in  Chief  by  bearing  on  many  occasions,  important  despatches 
from  him. 

He  related  to  the  writer  of  this  the  following  incident  :  His  father  on  a 
certain  occasion  sent  him  to  Newburg  for  a  purpose.  He  overtook  on  the 
road  Washington  and  his  suite.  With  boyish  confidence  he  rode  up  beside 
the  General  and  entered  into  conversation  with  him.  The  officers  in  the 
company  looked  with  some  surprise  at  the  familiarity  of  the  young  stranger 
and  the  readiness  of  Washington  to  encourage  it.  He  heard  one  ask, 
who  that  boy  was?  The  General  replied,  "It  is  Major  Wickcs'  son." 
After  a  short  ride  in  the  company  of  the  officers  he  quickened  his  speed  and 
left  them. 

At  the  taking  of  Stony  Point  (July  15,  1779)  he  was  ten  years  old.  He 
bore  the  news  to  General  Gates  at  Providence,  R.  I.  We  have  heard 
him  say,  alluding  to  his  age  on  that  occasion,  that  upon  reaching  a  toll  gate, 
the  keeper  refused  to  pass  him.  He  represented  that  he  was  an  express  rider 
and  had  no  money,  but  the  toil  gatherer  was  inexorable  till  overcome  by  his 
tears,  when  he  opened  the  gate  and  told  him  to  go,  and  to  tell  Generai 
Washington  to  send  an  express  next  time  who  would  not  cry. 

His  papers  secured  him  relays  of  horses,  and  his  saddlebags  furnished  by 
his  careful  mother  with  provisions  supplemented  by  the  milk  obtained  from 
the  farmers  on  the  road,  gave  him  the  necessary  supply  of  food. 

When  he  reached  Providence,  he  sought  the  headquarters  of  Gen.  Gates 
and  delivered  his  despatches.  The  General  was  so  much  pleased  with  the 
news  and  the  age  of  its  bearer  that  he  treated  him  with  much  attention,  as 
did  the  officers,  who  made  up  for  him  a  purse  of  $  130,  Continental  money. 

At  the  close  of  the  war  he  returned  with  the  family  to  his  native  home, 
being  then  14  years  of  age.  He  now  gave  himself  to  study,  and  soon 
entered  the  law  office  of  Abraham  Skinner,  Esq.,  of  Jamaica,  and  at  an 
early  age  was  admitted  to  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  that  town. 

He  possessed  many  striking  traits  of  character  which  made  him  during 


EUPHALET  WICKES.  born   i769. 


ELIPHALET    WICKES.  55 

all  liis  life  a  man  of  mark.  To  a  fine  intellect  and  sound  judgment  was  added 
a  clear  and  accurate  knowledge  of  his  profession.  His  widely  known 
reputation  for  unswerving  integrity  and  his  love  of  justice  combined  to  secure 
for  him  an  extensive  influence  throughout  Long  Island.  It  was  his  custom 
always  to  use  his  best  efforts  to  suppress  litigation.  When  applied  to  for 
counsel  and  to  undertake  a  suit,  it  was  his  habit  to  obtain  if  possible  a 
conference  of  the  parties  to  the  same,  and  effect,  if  it  could  be  done,  a 
settlement  of  the  difficulties.  It  can  not  be  known  how  far  his  influence 
contributed  to  the  fact,  but  it  is  nevertheless  true,  that  for  many  years  prior  to 
his  leaving  Jamaica  and  long  after  he  had  retired  from  practice  there  was 
no  lawyer  in  the  place  and  not  enough  business  to  encourage  one  to  settle 
there. 

As  an  advocate  he  was  remarkable  for  his  success.  His  pleas  were 
always  short.  Seizing  upon  the  strong  points  of  his  case  he  presented  them 
with  force  and  clearness.  He  held  on  Long  Island  the  cognomen  of  "the 
honest  lawyer."  His  statements  thus  had  power  with  a  jury.  In  a  suit 
in  which  he  was  engaged  in  Suffolk  County  when  the  cause  of  his  client 
was  not  favorable  for  success,  the  jury  most  unexpectedly  rendered  a 
verdict  in  his  favor.  One  of  the  opposing  counsel  asked  a  juryman  soon 
after,  how  it  was  that  the  jury  could  bring  in  such  a  verdict,  "  Why  "  said  he, 
"  Mr.  Wickes,  said  so." 

The  legal  instruments  of  which  he  was  the  author  were  peculiar.  He 
abandoned  set  forms,  and  made  up  a  terse,  concise,  comprehensive  instrument 
covering  all  the  ground  desired  in  simple  and  intelligible  language.  As  he 
would  write  his  checks  on  his  bank  on  a  strip  of  paper  an  inch  wide  when 
blanks  were  at  hand  and  he  was  urged  to  use  them,  so  he  preferred  his  own 
form  in  legal  matters,  to  any  set  for  him. 

The  writer  remembers  handing  to  Mr.  Lane,  a  banker,  just  such  a  check 
as  the  one  above  described.  Mr.  Lane  turned  the  check  in  his  hands. 
"  Why,"  said  he,  "  Does  your  uncle  write  his  checks  this  way  when  we  have 
blanks  for  the  purpose  ?"     The  reply  was,  "  He  likes  his  own  forms." 

His  love  of  justice  was  very  remarkable.  In  all  his  intercourse  with 
others  this  trait  of  his  character  was  strikingly  manifest.  No  man  ever  felt 
more  keenly  the  act  of  another  by  which  he  was  deceived  or  overreached. 
A  lover  of  truth  and  exact  justice  himself,  he  abhorred  their  opposite  in  the 
character  of  another. 

He  represented  his  District  in  Congress  in  the  earlier  years  of  his  life, 
(1805   to   ^807,  Jefferson's  Administration),  though  he  was  not  devoted  to 


56  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

politics  nor  ambitious  of  political  preferment.  lie  was  the  first  postmaster 
of  Jamaica,  appointed  by  Jefferson  and  held  the  office  through  every 
administration  till  that  of  Jackson.     He  was  also  Master  in  Chancery. 

It  is  not  the  memory  of  Eliphalet  Wickes  as  an  honorable  and  intellect- 
ual man  which  affords  to  his  friends  their  richest  legacy.  His  character  as  a 
Christian  man  was  uniform  and  exalted.  He  professed  his  faith  in  Christ 
when  he  was  about  4S_  years  of  age.  A  few  years  thereafter  he  was  ordained 
a  ruling  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Jamaica.  One  of  his 
characteristics  as  a  religious  man  was  his  interest  in  sustaining  and  promoting 
the  institutions  of  religion  and  Christian  beneficence. 

His  hand  was  open  to  bestow  liberally  whenever  an  appropriate  call  was 
made  upon  him.  He  set  apart  for  more  than  thirty  years  of  his  life  a  certain 
percentage  of  his  income,  which  was  large,  to  the  cause  of  Jesus  Christ.  He 
was  elected  in  1839,  a  corporate  member  of  the  American  Board  of 
Commissions   of  Foreign  Missions. 

The  scholarship  bearing  his  name  in  Princeton  Theological  Seminary 
and  founded  by  him  about  the  year  1825,  stands  a  monument  of  his  interest 
in  the  cause  of  education. 

The  last  few  months  of  his  life  were  marked  by  unusual  physical  activity 
and  mental  cheerfulness.  Though  81  years  of  age,  his  mind  was  as  clear  and 
vigorous  as  it  ever  had  been,  and  his  interest  unabated  in  all  matters  which 
had  heretofore  occupied  his  attention.  He  always  kept  in  view  and 
uniformly  acted  with  reference  to  the  fact  that  he  must  soon  meet  the 
summons  to  leave  the  scenes  of  earth.  His  business  was  posted  up  every 
day  and  his  papers  systematically  disposed,  at  all  times  ready  to  be  left  to  the 
care  of  his  executor.  One  week  before  his  death  he  visited  in  company  with 
others,  the  proposed  route  of  the  Troy  and  Boston  Railroad,  12  miles  from 
Troy,  an  enterprise  in  which  he  had  become  interested.  The  exertion  of  that 
day  proved  too  much  for  him.  As  an  illustration  of  his  uniformity  as  a 
Christian  man,  while  actively  employed  in  worldly  business,  it  may  be  noticed 
that  on  that  occasion  when  the  company,  which  was  quite  large,  had 
assembled  for  dinner,  though  a  comparative  stranger  to  many  of  them,  he 
addressed  himself  to  them,  and  craved  the  privilege  of  asking  God's  blessing 
upon  their  meal. 

Upon  his  return  home  he  was  attacked  with  a  chill,  which  was  followed 
by  a  slow  fever,  terminating  in  a  few  days  in  apoplexy,  and  a  peaceful  death 
on  the  7th  of  June,  1S50.  It  had  been  his  prayer  to  God  for  many  years  that 
he  might  be  spared  a  lingering  sickness.     His  prayer  was  answered.     While 


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ELIPHALET   WICKES.  57 

scaled  in  his  room  during-  the  days  of  his  illness,  he  remarked  to  a  friend  that 
he  did  not  know  what  might  be  the  result  of  his  sickness,  "  It  may  be,"  said 
he.  "  that  I  am  now  to  be  called  home."  "  Well,"  added  he,  with  emphasis, 
"  /  have  a  good  home  to  go  to?  The  summons  had  then  gone  forth  to  call 
him  to  his  rest. 

He  lived  in  Jamaica  till  1S35,  when  he  removed  to  Troy,  N.  Y.,  where 
he  lived  till  his  decease.     His  mortal  remains  were  laid  in  Troy. 

Much  of  the  above  notice  (which  was  prepared  by  this  writer)  was 
printed  as  an  appendix  to  a  sermon  entitled  "  The  Christian's  nativity  and 
death  contrasted,"  by  Ebenezer  Halley,  D.  D.,  Pastor  of  the  Second  Street 
Presbyterian  Church,  Troy,  N.  Y.,  1850. 

From  a  Troy  paper,  June  8,  1850. 

"  In  this  City  suddenly,  last  evening,  died  Eliphalet  Wickes,  Esq.,  aged 
82  years.  The  funeral  will  be  attended  Sunday  morning  at  8  o'clock  from' 
the  residence  of  Dr.  Blatchford,  Fourth  Street. 

Mr.  Wickes  has  been  in  usual  health  during  the  past  winter  and  spring. 
On  Thursday  of  last  week,  he  rode  out  to  Schaghticoke  to  view  the 
route  of  the  Troy  and  Boston  Railroad,  in  which  he  had  become  deeply 
interested.  He  returned  in  the  evening  highly  gratified,  though  greatly 
fatigued.  The  exertion  proved  too  much  for  him.  On  Saturday  he  was 
taken  with  a  severe  chill,  followed  by  fever  and  although  very  sick  was  nor 
considered  to  be  in  immediate  danger,  till  yesterday  noon,  when  diversion  to 
the  brain  took  place  and  he  went  into  an  apoplectic  state,  in  which  he 
continued  till  8  o'clock,  when  he  died. 

His  life  had  been  one  of  much  activity  and  usefulness.  During  the  War 
of  the  Revolution  he  served  his  country  by  riding  expresses,  though  only 
ten  years  of  age,  from  Washington's  Headquarters  at  Fishkill  to  Boston  and 
other  points  on  the  eastern  shore.  After  the  War  he  went  with  his  father  to 
Long  Island,  where  in  the  Town  of  Jamaica,  he  resided  during  the  most  of 
his  life,  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law,  having  represented  his  District  in 
Congress  and  filled  other  and  important  trusts.  He  removed  to  Troy  in 
1835.  He  was  a  warm  hearted  and  benevolent  Christian,  and  had  for  many 
years  contributed  largely  to  the  benevolent  enterprises  of  the  day. 

He  has  finished  his  work  at  a  ripe  old  age,  with  his  mental  powers 
vigorous  to  the  last,  and  has,  no  doubt,  "gone  to  the  rest  which  remaineth  for 
the  people  of  God." 


VAN    WYCK    WICKES. 


GENERAL  VAN   WYCK  WYCKES. 

VanWyck  Wickes,  the  fifth  son  of  Thomas  (4),  who  was  for  the  most 
of  his  life  contemporary  with  his  brother  Eliphalet,  was  born  in  the  Fishkill 
Barracks  during  the  Revolutionary  War.  He  returned  to  Long  Island  with 
his  father's  family  in  1783,  being  then  in  his  fifth  year,  and  remained  with  his 
father  until  he  went  to  Jamaica  to  receive  his  education  at  the  Academy 
there.  After  that  he  went  to  New  York  to  fit  himself  for  mercantile  life. 
He  remained  there  for  several  years,  during  a  part  of  which  time  he  was  in 
business  on  his  own  account.  Fie  preferred,  however,  a  life  in  the  country, 
and  returned  to  his  father's  beautiful  estate  on  Little  Neck,  where  he  resided 
until  1813,  when  he  purchased  in  Jamaica  the  homestead  estate  of  Stephen 
Herri  man  on  the  corner  of  Academy  lane  from  Eliphalet  Wickes,  Othniel 
Smith  and  Elizabeth  Herriman  executors  of  the  Herriman  estate.  The 
consideration  was  85.500  for  the  20  acres  and  two  plots  of  woodland,  10 
and  5  acres  respectively.  He  was  married  Sept.  19,  181 1,  and  after  living  a 
little  over  a  year  at  the  Neck  moved  to  this  house  in  Jamaica  before 
Stephen's  birth  that  Mrs.  Wickes  might  be  with  her  mother  when  that  event 
occurred.  He  went  to  New  York  in  1S16  to  enter  the  ship  chandlery 
business  with  James  Foster,  but  returned  to  Jamaica  the  following  spring. 

He  sold  the  20  acres  in  1835  to  Henry  Wilkes  of  New  York,  for 
$iS,ooo,  and  bought  the  old  place  of  his  brother  Eliphalet,  then  owned  by 
Henry  Punnett,  containing  about  fourteen  acres.  He  bought  it  early  enough 
in  that  year  to  make  the  garden  and  cultivate  the  land  for  crops.  His 
purchase  was  made  of  Henry  Punnett,  who  after  selling  his  valuable  property 
in  Newtown,  had  bought  the  house  in  Jamaica  of  Eliphalet  Wickes.  Mr. 
Punnett  removed  to  Troy  after  making  this  sale  to  VanWyck.  Prior  to  all 
this  VanWyck  had  determined  to  erect  a  new  house  on  his  property  on  the 
corner  of  Academy  lane  occupying  the  site  of  the  old  house  there,  and  on 
the  west  line  of  his  garden.  He  purchased  the  lumber  for  the  same  a  year  or 
more  before  he  proposed  to  commence  building  that  it  might  be  thoroughly 
seasoned.  By  some  pages  of  accounts  in  his  "  Journal  "  book  I  have,  I  find 
that  he  began  to  charge  sundry  persons  for  lumber  in  March  25,  1835.  He 
had  then  doubtless  sold  his  property  and  changed  his  plans.  His  entries 
for  lumber  sold  continued  to  be  made  throughout  the  year  1S35.  The  last 
was  made  Jan.  7,  1836.  Van  Wyck's  residence  in  his  new  house  was  short, 
as  in  the  fall  of  1836  he  removed  to  Troy.       The  auction  for  the    sale    of 


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|»is  effects  was  held  October  25,  1S36,  and  the  succeeding  month  found  him  in 
Troy. 

Here  he  lived  for  a  short  time  in  a  hired  house  in  Third  Street,  then 
bought  a  brick  house  No.  27  River  Street,  south  side,  where  he  lived  until 
after  his  daughter  Elizabeth's  death. 

He  professed  his  faith  in  Christ,  in  the  Church  in  Jamaica  in  or  about 
1S17,  and  was  ever  after,  distinguished  for  earnest  and  consistent  piety. 

He  was  fond  of  reading  and  made  himself  familiar  with  the  historv  of  his 
own  and  foreign  nations,  fie  thus  kept  himself  abreast  of  the  events  of  his 
time,  at  home  and  abroad.  That  he  valued  education  is  illustrated  by  the  fact 
that  he  sent  five  of  his  sons  to  college,  four  of  whom  became  professional 
men.  Three  entered  the  ministry  and  one,  the  writer  of  this,  the  medical 
profession.  He  was  for  many  years  a  trustee  of  Union  Hall  Academy  and 
zealous  in  promoting  its  welfare.  Very  courteous  in  his  manners,  of  good 
conversational  powers,  and  of  great  amiability  of  character,  he  made  his  home 
memorable  to  his  children  and  friends. 

He  was  retiring  in  his  habits  and  had  no  disposition  to  engage  in  the 
more  stirring  duties  of  life.  He  was  notwithstanding,  prominent  in  Oueens 
County,  as  a  valuable  citizen  and  was  active  in  the  promotion  of  enterprises 
designed  to  advance  the  moral  and  religious  interests  of  the  community. 

At  his  pastor's  donations  his  load  of  wood  would  be  good  hard  hickory 
from  Success  Woods.  He  was  one  of  Dr.  Nettleton's  right  hand  men  in  the 
wonderful  revival  of  1826  and  was  also  prominent  in  the  early  temperance 
movements,  and  for  many  years  was  Treasurer  of  the  Long  Island  Bible 
Society.  In  Troy  he  was  not  as  prominent  in  the  Church,  though  there,  as 
well  as  in  Jamaica,  he  was  urged  to  become  an  elder,  but  always  declined. 
He  was  an  earnest  Anti-Jackson  man  and  Whig  but  uniformly  refused  to 
assume  political  office  though  often  solicited  so  to  do.  He  preferred  the 
quiet  of  a  retired  citizen,  to  the  cares  and  anxieties  of  public  life.  He  served 
as  a  Captain  for  six  months  in  the  War  of  1S12  (Sept.  18 14,  was  in  camp  in 
Fort  Green.  Annual  message  of  Governor  Tompkins,  1S14).  He  retained 
his  commission  at  the  close  of  the  War,  and  was  from  time  to  time  advanced 
through  every  grade  until  he  attained  the  rank  of  Major  General  of  the 
division  which  embraced  the  territory  of  Oueens  County  and  Suffolk  County. 

He  removed  from  Troy  in  1S51  and  soon  thereafter  with  the  wife  of  his 
old  age,  made  his  home  with  his  oldest  son  in  Orange,  New  Jersey,  where  he 
died  full  of  years  and  in  the  Christian  hope,  June  13,  1S65. 


60  VAN    WYCK    WICKES. 

His   remains    and   those  of  his   aged   partner,  who  died  one  year  before 
repose  in   the  graveyard  at  Jamaica,  with  those  of  the  earlier  generations  of 
each  of  them. 

He  was  borne  to  his  grave  and  laid  in  his  last  resting  place  by  the 
loving  hands  of  his  six  sons,  all  in  the  maturity  of  their  manhood,  in  whose 
memories  his  steadfast  paternal  love  had  been  cherished,  and  whose  lives 
had  been  moulded  by  his  pious  teachings  and  godly  example. 

EXTRACTS  FROM   TETTERS  FROM  STEPHEN  WICKES 

TO  HENRY  WICKES,  1SS1. 

"  Did  you  ever  know  the  circumstances  connected  with  Dr.  Blatchford's 
marriage  to  Aunt  Harriet.  Grandpa  Wickes  and  she  were  living  in  their 
house  in  Jamaica  on  the  corner,  which  you  doubtless  know.  When  the  Dr. 
went  to  Jamaica  in  1818,  he  took  a  room  in  the  house  with  Grandpa,  back 
room,  second  story  (I  remember  its  mystical  paraphernalia  well)  and  boarded  in 
the  family.  He  was  engaged  to  be  married  when  he  came  to  Jamaica,  to  a  Miss 
Beekman,  daughter  of  a  wealthy  man  in  New  York,  who  was  opposed  to  the 
choice  his  daughter  had  made  because  he  was  a  poor  young  Doctor.  After  a 
persistent  pressing  of  his  suit,  the  arrangements  were  finally  made  for  the 
wedding,  the  day  was  appointed,  and  Aunt  Harriet  had  made  a  wedding  cake, 
among  other  appointments  to  receive  the  newly  married  pair.  The  Dr.  left 
on  the  day  appointed  for  the  nuptials,  and  found  to  his  dismay  when  he 
visited  his  expected  bride  that  she  had  been  persuaded  to  change  her  mind 
The  Dr.  returned  to  Jamaica  alone  and  forlorn,  but  he  improvised  a  remedy 
He  offered  himself  immediately  to  Aunt  Harriet.  She  had  known  enough  of 
him  to  save  any  loss  of  time,  accepted  him  and  on  the  next  day  the  wedding 
cake  she  had  made  for  a  stranger,  graced  her  own  nuptials.  The  Dr.  wrote  a 
long-  piece  of  poetry,  a  man  of  riches  refusing  the  hand  of  his  daughter  to  a 
worthy  suitor  because  he  was  poor.  It  was  funny,  sharp  and  very  telling. 
He  published  it  in  a  New  York  paper,  and  had  the  satisfaction  of  seeing  it 
widely  copied  in  other  papers.  They  were  married  Feb.  3,  18 19.  Grandpa 
died  nine  months  after,  Nov.  30,  of  the  same  year.  During  the  last  few 
weeks  of  his  illness  Dr.  Blatchford  and  his  wife  slept  in  a  trundle  bed 
in  his  room  to  minister  to  his  infirmities.  It  was  a  very  happy  marriage 
union  for  both  of  them.  It  is  worthy  of  note  that  this  Blatchford  alliance 
changed  the  destiny  of  the  families  of  Uncle  Wickes  and  Father,  and  that  of 
their  posterity.  No  events  are  small  and  unimportant,  for  they  are  all  a  part 
of  the  divine  plan." 


EXTRACTS    FROM    LETTERS,    iSSl.  6l 

"Grandma  Herriman  lived  with  Father  for  several  years.  I  remember  it 
well  (so  do  I,  Henry).  When  she  left  there  she  took  rooms  at  James 
Hcrriman's,  spending  a  considerable  time  in  New  York,  and  also  at  Uncle 
Denton's.  After  the  death  of  Aunt  Suydam,  she  and  Aunt  Sally  went  to 
Skidmore  Smith's,  their  nephew,  a  son  of  their  sister,  Aunt  Polly,  who  owned 
the  place  on  the  hill,  and  left  it  to  her  sons,  Skidmore  and  Benjamin.  The 
former  was  an  inefficient  and  unsuccessful  man,  the  latter  was  a  successful 
and  wealthy  merchant,  a  partner  of  Uncle  Denton.  Benjamin  supported 
his  brother's  family,  so  far  as  it  was  necessarv,  during  his  life.  He  died  in 
i!S;,4,  leaving  his  wife  and  children  rich.  Grandma  and  the  sisters  above 
noted  and  Uncle  Isaac,  who  lived  and  died  at  Hamburg  Landing  on  North 
River  (father  of  Ephriam)  were  children  of  a  first  marriage  of  their  mother 
to  a  Smith.  Uncle  Denton  and  Aunt  Wilkins  were  the  issue  of  a  second 
marriage  to  a  Denton." 

"  Father  was  four  years  old  at  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  and 
about  16  when  his  father  went  to  Little  Neck.  His  boyhood  was  passed  in 
Huntington,  South,  where  the  Saw  Mill  doubtless  was.  He  went  to  New 
York  as  a  clerk  in  a  dry  goods  store,  and  was  there  till  he  was  over  21,  being 
for  a  short  time  in  business  for  himself,  in  dry  goods,  I  think.  He  then  went 
to  Little  Neck  working  the  farm  till  his  marriage,  Sept.  181 1,  remaining  there 
after  his  marriage  till  his  father  came  to  Jamaica,  mother  going  to  her 
mother's  to  be  confined  there  with  her  first  born,  probably  in  the  room  where 
she  herself  was  born. 

,;  About  three  years  since,  I  was  introduced  to  an  aged  lady  named  Van 
W  yck,  daughter  of  a  Hewlett.  She  expressed  great  pleasure  in  meeting  me, 
said  '  I  knew  your  father  when  he  lived  at  Little  Neck  and  I  lived  across  the 
Bay.  I  used  to  visit  Miss  Harriet,  to  hear  her  play  the  piano.  I  was  there 
one  Sunday  morning  when  he  drove  up  to  the  door  in  his  little  green  wagon 
and  pair  of  ponies,  and  we  laughed  at  him  as  he  was  going  off  to  see  his  girl' 
I  (Stephen)  well  remember  that  green  wagon.  It  must  have  been  sold  to 
Mr.  VanZant  with  the  place  as  I  many  times  saw  him  drive  it  through 
Jamaica  to  and  from  New  York." 


"Grandfather  Herriman,  died  in   1792,  aged  35.     Grandma  was  then 
years  of  age. 

"  I  do  not  know  how  long  before  Grandpa  Herriman's  death  he  had  lived 
m  that  house.  I  have  an  impression  prompted  by  little  items  within  my 
'^•collection  that  it  was  the  Smith  homestead  and  that  our  great  grand- 
parents of  that  name   lived  there.      I    have   not    succeeded    in    getting  the 


62  EXTRACT    FROM    LETTERS,    iSSl. 

first  name  of  grandmother's  father.  The  homestead  was  very  old  when  I 
first  remember  it,  and  must  have  been  built  before  the  middle  of  the  last 
Century.  While  I  am  now  writing,  it  seems  to  me  that  I  never  sought  for  the 
marriages  and  baptisms  of  the  Jamaica  Church  records.  They  may  be  still 
preserved.     I  wTill  try  and  find  out." 

"  I  remember  when  Father  came  back  to  the  Jamaica  place  after  his 
residence  in  New  York  in  1817.  There  was  no  orchard  upon  it  then  nor  on 
either  side  of  the  lane.  The  old  house  on  the  corner  was  there  with  its  open 
garden  and  was  built,  as  I  believe,  early  in  the  last  Century,  that  is  to  say 
before  1750.  When  Father  bought  it,  the  barn  stood  quite  near  the  house. 
I  remember  its  removal  to  where  we  all  now  locate  it  in  our  memories.  I 
have  said  above  that  the  house  was  old  when  Father  bought  it.  I  was  a 
small  boy  when  improvements  were  made  in  it  and  painters  were  employed  to 
paint  the  exterior.  While  they  were  engaged  in  the  work,  I  heard  one  say  to 
the  other,  "  painting  this  house  is  like  painting  the  bark  of  an  old  tree."  The 
shingles  had  become  so  rough  from  their  long  exposure  to  the  weather." 

The  following  extract  from  the  New  York  Evangelist  was  written 
about   1880,  by  Rev.  Chas.  E.  Furman,  D.D.,  of  Rochester,  N.  Y.: 

In  the  center  of  the  village  of  Jamaica,  L.  I.,  in  the  middle  of  the  street, 
the  roads  running  round  it,  stood  an  old  octagonal  church.  Seventy  years 
ago  Rev.  Mr.  Fatoute,  grandfather  of  James  Flackett  the  tragedian,  was  its 
pastor.  In  1810  or  '12  I  knew  a  Mr.  Lamberson,  a  merchant  of  that  village 
from  his  youth.  In  the  latter's  early  days  Whitefield  came  to  Jamaica  to 
preach.  There  was  an  orchard  not  far  from  where  the  old  church  stood,  that 
belonged  (how  long  before  or  how  long  afterwards,  I  can't  say)  to  Col.  Van 
Wyck  Wickes,  and  when  Mr.  Whitefield  came  there  he  preached  in  this 
orchard,  as  there  was  no  room  in  the  place  large  enough  to  hold  the 
thousands  who  came  to  hear  him.  Among  his  hearers  was  this  Mr. 
Lamberson.  Then  a  youth,  he  climbed  up  in  an  apple-tree  to  listen  to  the 
wonderful  preacher.  Mr.  Whitefield  spoke  of  Zaccheus,  who  climbed  up  into 
a  sycamore  tree  to  hear  the  Saviour,  who  said  to  him  "  Zaccheus,  come  down, 
for  salvation  is  come  to  thy  house,"  and  fixing  his  eye  on  and  pointing  his 
hand  to  young  Lamberson,  Mr. Whitefield  said  "I  think  I  see  Zaccheus  in 
the  tree  above  me,  why  not  make  haste  and  come  down,  and  receive  salvation 
at  the  hands  of  the  Savior  ?  " 

The  appeal  was  impressive,  doubtless,  upon  the  minds  of  the  multitude, 
but  on  young  Lamberson  it  was  effectual.  He  went  to  his  home,  established 
his  family  altar,  made  a  profession  of  his   faith  in  the  Saviour,  and  ever  lived, 


EXTRACTS    FROM    LETTERS,    iSSl.  63 

till   the   day    I    knew  him,  when   he   was  very  old,  a  very  consistent,  honest 
Christian,  full  of  days-and  full  of  riches. 

The  orchard  still  remained,  and  was  the  play  ground  of  the  sons  of  Col. 
Wickes,  John  and  Henry,  so  well  known  in  this  community,  ministers  in 
turn,  of  the  church  in  Brighton." 

Extracts  from  other  letters  of  Stephen  Wickes  to  Henry,  referring  to  the 
above  clipping  : 

"The  church  in  Jamaica  was  in  the  midst  of  the  Main  street  of  the 
village  directly  opposite  to  a  lane  running  south  from  the  street  known  as 
"  Meeting  House  Lane."  When  the  Academy  (Union  Hall)  was  built  upon 
it,  on  property  purchased  of  Silas  Roe,  the  owners  on  each  side  of  the  lane 
gave  each  ten  or  twelve  feet,  the  length  of  one  section  of  a  post  and  rail  fence, 
Roe  on  the  west  and  father  on  the  east  side.  Those  twenty  feet  made  the  width 
it  now  is.  It  was  then  called  "  Meeting  House  Lane"  and  "Academy  Lane" 
indiscriminately.  In  a  few  years  the  latter  name  was  established.  In  the 
days  of  1S36,  when  streets  were  opened  by  speculators  in  building  lots,  it  was 
elevated  to  the  title  of  Academy  Street,  which  it  now  retains. 

The  old  building  was  not  octagonal.  It  was  square,  built  of  stone,  1699. 
It  stood  one  hundred  and  fourteen  years,  and  was  taken  down  in  1S13. 

The  "  Mr.  Lamberson,"  must  have  been  David  Lamberson,  the  father  of 
Judge  L.  who  died  in  1842,  aged  64,  one  year  older  than  Father.  Both 
father  and  the  Judge  were  born  after  Whitfield's  death  in  1770.  Whitfield 
visited  Jamaica  in  1740  and  again  in  1764.  McDonald  in  his  history  says, 
"  he  preached  in  the  open  air,  standing,  it  is  said,  under  an  apple  tree  not  far 
from  the  spot  on  which  Union  Hall  Academy  is  now  located." 

I  heard  Grandma  Herriman  say  a  number  of  times  that  she  was  a  girl 
when  WThitfield  preached  in  the  open  air  and  that  she  heard  him,  that  he 
stood  under  a  tree  in  the  field  east  of  Father's  house  (where  the  old  pear  tree 
was).  This  was  indeed  not  far  from  the  site  of  the  Academy,  but  not  near 
enough  to  make  a  point  of  it.  I  was  interested  in  the  fact  and  more  than 
once  talked  with  Grandma  about  it.  My  recollections  of  her  statements  are 
very  definite.  She  had  no  impressions  of  the  sermon.  She  remembered  that 
he  had  a  loud  voice,  flowing  hair  and  much  action  as  a  speaker.  She  was 
about  7  years  of  age  in  1 764. 

Judge  Lamberson's  father  was  a  trustee  of  the  church  in  1791.  Suppos- 
ing him  to  have  been  45  years  old  when  elected  a  trustee,  he  was  18  years  old 
in  1764.     I  think  I  remember  his   death,  but  not  his  appearance.     He  was 


64  THOMAS    SCUDDER    WICKS. 

called  old  Mr.  Lamberson.  The  fact  of  his  going  home  from  the  preaching 
and  "establishing-  bis  family  altar,"  does  not  correspond  with  his  beincr  \ 
"youth,"  nor  is  it  consistent  with  what  must  have  been  his  age,  when  he  was 
converted  by  Whitfield's  preaching. 

The   story  as  related   by  his   sister  has  its  origin  in  a  fact,  but  like  most 
traditions  is  rather  mixed." 


REV.   THOMAS  SCUDDER  WICKES. 

Engaged  in  Missionary  work,  1  Si 9-22. 

Ordained  Evangelist  by  President,  New  York,  Sept.  9,  1822. 

Stated  Supply  West  Farms,  1823-24. 

Stated  Supply  Greenbush,  N.  Y.,  1825-31. 

Stated  Supply  Sand  Lake,  N.  Y.,  1831-36. 

The  eldest  child  and  only  son  of  Eliphalet  (2)  after  a  preliminary  course 
of  study  in  the  Academy  at  Jamaica,  entered  Yale  College,  where  he 
graduated  in  1S14.  He  then  entered  the  Divinity  School  at  Princeton,  being 
among  its  earliest  students.  After  a  full  theological  course,  he  was  licensed 
to  preach  the  Gospel.  His  health  had  now  become  enfeebled  and  fearing 
the  development  of  lung  disease,  he  adopted  a  measure  for  its  restoration, 
which  in  that  day  had  become  very  popular,  a  long  journey  on  horse  back 
from  Long  Island  into  Yirginia.  He  was  also  engaged  for  a  short  time  in 
teaching  in  the  Academy  at  Jamaica.  His  first  ministerial  work  was  as  a  supply 
for  some  months  at  West  Farms,  N.  Y.  He  was  next  in  the  same  relations 
at  Greenbush,  Renesselaer  County  and  subsequently  at  Sand  Lake,  of  the 
same  County.  He  was  a  man  of  earnest  piety  and  very  desirous  of  preaching 
the  Gospel,  for  which  by  his  early  training  and  intellectual  endowments  he 
was  well  fitted.  His  health  however,  was  inadequate.  A  chronic  weakness  of 
his  throat  and  vocal  organs  forbade  the  use  of  his  voice  in  public  speaking. 
He  finally  abandoned  it  and  purchasing  a  property  in  Ballston,  N.  Y., 
retired  to  a  quiet  life  in  1839.  He  remained  there  till  1 851,  when  he  migrated 
to  Poughkeepsie,  where  he  passed  the  remainder  of  his  days,  ad  caelum 
migrans,  1876  ae.  81. 


THOMAS    S.    WTCKES.  65 

"OBITUARY." 
Rev.    Thomas    S .   Wickes. 

In  the  death  of  this  gentleman,  Poughkeepsie  has  lost  one  of  its  best  and 
most  honored  citizens,  a  just  and  upright  man,  fearing  God  and  keeping  his 
commandments.  Philanthropic  and  benevolent,  his  charities  were  many  and 
without  ostentation,  while  his  piety  was  simple,  warm,  affectionate  and 
constant.  Intelligent  in  his  convictions,  he  accepted  and  held  to  the  policy  of 
his  Church  with  a  strong  and  unwavering  trust,  but  with  great  catholicity  of 
feeling  to  all. 

With  a  thorough  classical  and  theological  education  he  was  qualified  for 
any  position  to  which  the  Church  might  call  him,  were  it  not  for  his  marked 
modesty  and  delicate  health.  Safe  in  counsel,  firm  in  friendship,  he  was  held 
in  universal  respect.  Amiable  and  loveable  from  disposition  an  unusual  grace 
came  upon  him  as  the  years  passed,  so  that  one  felt  that  he  walked  with  God. 
A  prominent  trait  of  his  character  was  his  integrity  of  purpose.  He  was  just 
and  true  in  all  his  actions,  the  very  soul  of  honor,  incapable  of  a  mean  thing. 
Domestic  in  his  habits,  he  made  his  family  the  center  of  his  joys  and  tiie 
recipients  of  his  affections.  Reverent  and  grave  in  the  temper  of  his  mind,  he- 
had  the  rare  gift  of  gravity  without  moroseness,  and  dignity  without  repulsion. 
The  children  loved  him  and  were  tenderly  drawn  to  him  by  his  considerate 
kindness.  The  one  pervasive  thing  of  his  character  was  his  goodness,  and 
out  of  this  came  the  sweetest  blossomings  and  the  richest  fruitage." 

(Poughkeepsie  paper.) 


Died  in  Poughkeepsie  on  Thanksgiving  night  (Nov.  30,  1876)  from  acute 
Pneumonia,  Rev.  Thomas  S.  Wickes,  in  the  82nd.  year  of  his  age.  .  .  He 
was  a  man  of  generous  culture  and  pre-eminent  for  the  purity  of  his  life,  a 
constant  and  large  contributor  to  the  charities  of  the  church,  and  always 
ready  with  heart  and  hand  to  relieve  the  suffering  and  the  poor.  His  love 
for  the  Lord  Jesus  was  tender  and  strong,  while  his  religious  convictions 
were  clear  and  firmly  held.  Among  his  friends  his  presence  was  ever  a  delight 
from  his  quiet  humor  and  affectionate  disposition.  He  was  widely  known 
and  universally  respected  and  beloved. 


66  THOMAS    WICKES,    D.D. 

It  has  been  our  pleasure  long-  to  know  and  esteem  this  beloved  and 
venerable  servant  of  God, — The  meekness  and  quiet  beauty  of  his  Godly  life 
his  consistent  walk  and  conversation  through  years  of  patient  work,  waiting 
on  the  Lord's  will,  his  right  use  of  the  means  and  opportunities  of  usefulness 
that  were  given  him,  always  revealed  to  us  in  him  a  friend  of  God  and  of  his 
fellow  men.  In  his  household  what  a  father  and  husband  should  be,  in 
society  what  a  gentleman  and  christian  may  be,  and  in  the  Church  a  model 
of  a  living  saint,  he  illustrated  while  he  lived,  and  so  has  left  a  memory 
precious  in  the  memories  of  all  who  knew  him. 

(Editors.     New  York  Observer.) 


THOMAS  WICKES.  D.D. 

Thomas,  the  second  son  of  Van  Wyck,  as  a  boy  was  studious  and 
exemplary,  and  as  devoted  to  youthful  sports  as  he  was  to  school  duties.  He 
was  the  best  base  ball  player,  and  the  surest  shot  at  maibles  of  any  among  his 
fellows.  It  was  the  custom  with  the  boys  to  play  at  the  latter  game  "for  fair" 
and  "for  fun,"  in  the  former  case  winning  the  marbles  played  for.  At  this 
game  he  accumulated  the  little  treasures  by  the  hundreds,  the  size  of  his 
marble  bags  increasing  with  his  accumulating  riches.  Just  here  his  moral 
courage  was  brought  to  its  first  test.     He  was  led  to  reflect  that  it  was  not  right 

too  o 

to  thus  win  and  take  possession  of  the  property  of  others.  When  his  mind 
was  made  up  he  notified  the  boys  that  he  did  not  think  it  was  right  to  play 
"for  fair,"  and  that  he  would  do  it  no  longer.  His  decision  was  laughed  at  by 
his  associates,  and  his  conscientiousness  derided,  but  his  purpose  was  fixed 
and  he  ever  after  played  marbles  "for  fun,"  with  a  conscience  at  perfect  peace. 
As  he  grew  older  his  success  in  more  advanced  sports  was  equally  manifest. 
He  was  the  most  successful  fisherman  and  the  best  shot  in  the  family.  On 
one  occasion  he  went  out  with  the  writer  of  this  to  shoot  pigeons.  A 
flock  of  birds  passed  over  the  ground  where  we  were  standing.  Each  of  us 
fired  into  the  flock.  Only  one  bird  fell.  "That's  mine,"  said  he,  "That  is  the 
very  one  I  aimed  at."  The  writer  could  not  claim  it  as  he  had  fired  into  the 
flock  without  selecting  his  bird.  It  was  an  index  of  his  after  life.  With  great 
deliberation  he  selected  his  object  and  took  careful  aim. 

He  entered  Yale  College  in  1830  and  graduated  with  great  credit  in  1S34. 
He  at  once  commenced  the  study  of  theology  in  Princeton  Seminary,  having 
made  a  profession  of  religion  while  he  was  in  College.  Upon  entering  the 
College,  he  connected  himself  with  the  First  Presbytery  of  New  York.     While 


THOMAS    WICK.ES,    D.D.  67 

.:»  Princeton  as  a  divinity  student  he  resolved  to  give  his  life  to  the  work  of 
Foreign  Missions,  and  placed  himself  in  the  hands  of  the  American  Board  as 
its  prospective  Missionary.  I  lis  devotion  and  self  denial  in  this  was 
manifested  by  his  request  to  the  Board  that  he  might  be  sent  to  the  degraded 
Zulus  in  Africa.  He  remained  in  the  Seminary  at  Princeton  for  two  years, 
and  then  being  desirous  of  sitting  under  the  instruction  of  Dr.  Nathan  Taylor 
of  New  Haven,  he  spent  his  last  year  at  the  Yale  Theological  School. 

When  his  course  of  theological  study  was  completed  he  applied  to  his 
Presbytery  for  examination  and  licensure.  The  members  of  the  Presbytery 
were  in  their  views  very  hostile  to  the  teachings  of  New  Haven.  Their 
young  candidate  was  believed  to  be  sound  in  doctrine  as  they  viewed  it,  but 
they  shrunk  from  giving  the  endorsement  of  their  stalwart  Presbytery  to  one 
who  had  finished  his  divinity  course  at  New  Haven.  The  Presbytery  did  not 
refuse  to  examine  him,  but  postponed  his  examination  from  time  to  time  and 
put  obstacles  in  his  way  to  such  a  degree  that  he  finally  went  to  New  Haven, 
and  was  licensed  by  the  Congregational  Association  there. 

The  American  Board  of  Commissioners  of  Foreign  Missions  receiving  a 
large  part  of  its  revenues  from  the  Presbyterian  Churches,  was  careful  to 
pursue  such  a  course  in  its  appointment  of  Missionaries  as  would  give  no 
offense  to  any  of  the  Presbyteries.  Theological  opinions  were  crystalizing 
into  the  form  which  ended  in  the  disruption  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  To 
relieve  the  Board  of  any  perplexity  in  regard  to  himself  our  excellent  brother 
resigned  his  appointment.  This  action  gave  a  new  direction  to  the  history 
of  his  after  life. 

A  letter  written  to  this  writer  from  Princeton  Seminary  Aug.  i8,  1S35 
exhibits  the  fullness  of  his  purpose  when  he  gave  himself  to  the  work  ot 
Foreign  Missions.  After  alluding  to  some  events  which  were  likely 
to  transpire,  he  says,  "I  shall  be  far  beyond  their  influence.  Shall  I  tell  you 
why  or  how?  I  may  be  in  Heathen  lands.  Yes,  my  brother,  I  think  it  my 
duty  to  go  to  the  heathen  and  preach  to  them  the  story  of  the  Savior. 
During  the  greater  part  of  this  term,  I  have  revolved  this  subject  most 
seriously  in  my  mind.  I  have  prayed  over  it,  and  in  view  of  perishing 
millions,  who  are  asking  the  bread  of  life  from  us,  in  view  of  the  last 
command  of  my  Savior,  and  his  last  promise  too,  I  am  willing  to 
consecrate  my  talents  and  my  life  to  this  great  work.  It  is  since  I 
have  commenced  this  letter  that  I  have  come  to  this  resolution.  I  tremble 
under  the  momentus  decision.  The  flesh  is  weak,  but  may  God  grant  me 
grace  and  prepare  me  for  doing  his  whole  will.     When  in  College,  my  mind 


68  WICKES   GENEALOGY. 

was  drawn  to  this  subject,  but  then  and  since  1  have  been  afraid  to  examine 
it  candidly,  for  fear  that  I  should  find  it  to  be  my  duty  to  go  abroad.  But  at 
the  commencement  of  this  term  I  read  an  essay  on  the  subject  of  Missions, 
and  my  prejudices  and  fears  seemed  suddenly  to  give  way  and  I  could 
say,  "  Lord,  what  wilt  thou  have  me  to  do,"  and  since  that  time  I  have 
enjoyed  such  a  continued  cheerful  and  happy  frame  of  mind  as  never 
before.  The  path  of  duty  is  the  path  of  peace  and  safety.  I  can  trust  the 
promises  and  they  are  a  sure  support." 

Immediately  after  his  licensure  by  the  New  Haven  Association,  he  was 
called  to  supply  the  pulpit  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  in  Troy,  during  the 
absence  of  its  pastor,  Rev.  Dr.  Beman,  in  Europe.  Having  accepted  the  call 
he  took  letters  from  the  New  Haven  West  Association  to  the  Troy  Presbyter}'-, 
which  at  Salem,  N.  Y.,  Feb.  19,  1839,  ordained  him  as  a  Presbyter.  He  was 
thus  providentially  and  speedily  restored  to  the  Church  of  his  fathers.  He 
preached  in  Troy  about  sixteen  months  and  till  the  return  of  Dr.  Beman  from 
abroad.  He  was  successful  in  securing  the  interest  and  affection  of  the 
Church  and  in  adding  to  its  communion  many  who  in  a  revival  of  religion 
were  brought  to  a  knowledge  of  the  Savior  through  his  ministrations. 

In  the  spring  of  1840  when  his  service  in  Troy  was  closed,  his  health  was 
much  broken.  For  the  purpose  of  recuperation  he  resolved  to  make  a  western 
tour.  A  friend  in  Troy,  knowing  that  he  was  going  west,  gave  him  letters  to 
his  kinsman  in  Marietta,  Ohio,  and  advised  him,  if  he  found  it  convenient,  to 
stop  there  and  see  him.  He  did  so,  and  was  invited  to  preach  in  the  First 
Congregational  Church  which  had  just  become  vacant.  He  was  solicited  to 
remain  a  few  Sabbaths  and  preach  to  the  people.  It  resulted  in  a  call  to  what 
proved  to  be  his  life  work.  After  a  long  pastorate  in  Marietta,  he  resigned  his 
charge  and  was  settled  for  one  year  in  Jamestown,  N.  Y.  The  new  connection 
was  not  a  pleasant  one  to  him,  and  his  health  having  begun  to  fail,  he  resigned. 
He  was  soon  after  called  from  his  earthly  labors.  He  died  of  a  cancer  of  the 
stomach  while  on  a  visit  to  his  brother  in  Orange,  N.  J.  His  remains  were 
taken  from  there  to  Marietta,  Ohio,  and  there  laid  beside  those  of  the 
wife  of  his  first  love,  to  await  the  resurrection  among  the  people  whom  he  had 
so  long  served  in  the  Gospel. 

Dr.  Wickes'  doctrinal  views  were  thoroughly  Calvinistic.  His  preaching 
was  logical,  direct  and  impressive.  He  was  very  successful  in  leading 
sinners  to  Christ.  His  Church  in  Marietta  during  his  ministry  was  disting- 
uished by  many  powerful  revivals  of  religion. 


THOMAS    WICKES,    D.  D.  69 

He  was  a  severe  student  of  the  Scriptures,  the  results  of  which  appeared 
in  an  "  Exposition  of  The  Apocalypse,"  published  in  1S51,  pp.  437.  "The  Son 
of  Man,"  published  by  the  American  Tract  Society,  Boston,  1S68,  pp.  382,  and 
"Economy  of  Ages,"  1869,  pp.  562.  His  eschatology  as  laid  open  in  the  first 
and  last  of  these  writings  is  pre-millenial.  His  views  were  clearly  defined. 
They  controlled  and  gave  a  quiet  peace  to  his  godly  life.  When  his  brother 
at  whose  house  he  died,  informed  him  that  he  could  not  live,  he  asked,  "  How 
long  shall  I  live?"  "  If  you  fail  as  you  have  for  the  last  week,  you  will  not 
live  for  more  than  two  days."  "  Is  it  possible,  I  do  not  feel  so."  "  Have  you 
any  arrangements  to  make  or  anything  you  want  to  say?"  He  remained 
silent  for  a  moment  and  then  with  the  most  serenity  replied,  "  No,  I  long 
since  gave  all  to  my  Savior  and  if  He  thinks  my  work  is  finished,  lam  ready. 
I  have  hoped  to  see  His  face  on  earth,  but  I  shall  see  Him  soon  in  glory." 
He  passed  from  earth  in  about  forty-eight  hours  after  this. 


THE  FUNERAL  OF  DR.  WICKES. 

The  funeral  of  Rev.  Thomas  Wickes,  D.D.  at  the  Conoreo-ational  Church 
last  Sunday  afternoon,  was  attended  by  an  immense  audience,  perhaps  the 
largest  ever  assembled  at  a  church  in  Marietta.  It  was  in  the  house  of 
worship  where  he,  whose  body  now  lay  stilled  in  death,  had  preached  for 
twenty-nine  years,  closing  his  labors  here  with  the  farewell  sermon  April  4, 
1S69,  now  less  than  twenty  months  ago.  We  printed  on  that  occasion  :  "The 
old  church  was  crowded  as  it  has  been  but  few  times  in  its  history  of  sixty 
years.  Dr.  Wickes  spoke  in  a  very  quiet  tone,  very  clear,  and  every  word  was 
heard  distinctly.  The  attention  given  was  extraordinary.  The  people  by  their 
large  assemblage,  testified  their  respect  for  the  faithful  worker  in  Christ's  vine- 
yard when  living."  Last  Sunday  a  much  larger  number  assembled  to  pay  their 
regard  to  the  dead.  The  building  as  large  as  it  is,  when  we  came  to  it,  ten 
minutes  before  the  time  set  for  the  services  to  commence,  was  already  crowded, 
in  the  body  of  the  Church,  all  around  the  gallery,  in  the  aisles,  as  well  as  the 
stairs  and  vestibule,  and  very  many  remained  outside.  The  standing  room 
was  occupied  except  at  the  front  of  the  pulpit.     *     *     *     *     * 

It  was  all  in  all  a  fit  testimony  to  the  long  and  valued  services  of  the 

departed." 

(Marietta  Register,  Nov.  17,  1870.) 


70  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

OBITUARY. 

A  great  audience  was  gathered  at  the  Congregational  Church  in  Marietta, 
on  the  afternoon  of  the  Sabbath,  Nov.  13,  to  attend  the  funeral  services  of  the 
Rev.  Dr.Wickes.  It  was  fitting  that  one  who  had  ministered  for  nearly  thirty 
years  at  the  altar  of  that  church  should  be  carried  from  it  to  his  last  resting 
place.  He  came  to  Marietta  in  March,  1840.  After  supplying  the  pulpit  of 
the  Congregational  Church  a  few  sabbaths  he  was  invited  to  become  pastor 
of  the  church  and  society  and  was  installed  in  July  of  that  year.  In  April, 
1869,  he  tendered  his  resignation  of  his  charge  after  a  long  and  successful 
pastorate,  of  about  twenty-nine  years.  He  died  on  the  10th  of  Nov.  1870,  at 
the  residence  of  his  brother,  Stephen  Wickes,  M.  D.,  at  Orange,  N.  J.,  after  a 
brief  illness.  Thus  had  passed  away  a  most  useful  and  excellent  minister  of 
Christ.  No  one  but  a  man  of  ability  could  have  maintained  himself  so  Ions: 
as  pastor  of  such  a  church.  His  inllucnce  was  great  not  only  in  the  immediate 
region,  but  with  all  the  churches  of  the  denomination  in  the  State.  He  was 
active  in  the  formation  both  of  the  Marietta  Cono-recrational  Conference  and  of 
the  State  Conference.  Of  the  latter  body  he  was  chosen  Moderator  in  j 853, 
and  again  in  i860.  No  Congregational  minister  in  Ohio  has  been  more 
influential,  and  no  one  has  been  more  highly  respected  throughout  the  State. 
His  name  will  be  remembered,  and  his  memory  will  be  cherished  by 
multitudes,  whose  acquaintance  with  him  was  but  slight,  as  well  by  those 
whose  privilege  it  was  to  sit  under  his  ministrations. 

In  1849  ne  was  elected  a  trustee  of  Marietta  College,  which  office  he 
continued  to  hold  during  his  life.  The  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  was 
conferred  upon  him  by  Wabash  College  some  seven  or  eight  years  since. 

Prominent  among  his  traits  of  character  were  simplicity  and  conscien- 
tiousness. He  was  removed  as  much  as  any  one  could  well  be  from 
anything  like  policy.  Direct  and  frank  and  transparent  himself,  it  was  diffi- 
cult for  him  to  bring  himself  to  distrust  others.  His  sincerity  no  man  called 
in  question.  All  who  knew  him  believed  him  to  be  a  true  Christian. 
However  any  might  differ  from  him  in  doctrine,  they  never  doubted  his  piety. 

All  who  were  present  at  the  installation  of  Dr.  Wickes  in  July,  1840  will 
remember  the  touching  and  beautiful  words  addressed  to  the  young  pastor  by 
Prof.  Allen  (then  of  Marietta  College,  afterwards  of  Lane  Seminary)  as  he  gave 
him  the  right  hand  of  fellowship.  At  that  time  Prof.  Allen  doubtless  expected 
to  spend  his  life  in  Marietta,  but  God  appointed  him  to  another  work.  Now 
after  thirty  years  passed  in  different  fields  of  labor,  these  Christian  brothers 


DR.    STEPHEN    WICKES.  7  j 

have  been  reunited.  Their  final  call  to  their  home  having  come  to  them 
almost  at  the  same  time.  Two  good  men  have  finished  their  work  together. 
Different  in  some  attributes  of  their  characters  they  were  both  earnest,  true, 
godly,  successful  men. 

From  the  same  paper,  written  by  Rev.  Pres.  Andrews, 
of  Marietta  College. 


DR.   STEPHEN   WICKES. 

Dr.   Pennington's  tribute  read  before  the    74th  Annual  Meeting  of  the 
Essex  District  Medical  Society,  Newark,  N.  J. 

Dr.  Wickes'   earlier   life   was  spent  in  another  State,  and  he  had    been 
already  engaged  in  medical  practice  several  years  when  he  made  his  home  in 
New  Jersey.     His  birth  was  at  Jamaica,  L.  I.,  where  his  parents,  VanWyck 
and    Eliza  Herriman  Wickes,   resided.     He  was  of  an  honored   lineage,  the 
American  ancestor  of  the  family,   Mr.  Thomas  Wickes,  having  become^n  the 
year  1666,  the  grantee  of  a  large  tract  of  land  on   Long  Island  of  which  the 
Town  of  Huntington  is  the  center.     The   parents  of  "our  deceased  brother, 
perceiving  early  indications  of  mental  capacity  conjoined  with  a  fondness  for 
study,  wisely  determined  to  give  him  the  advantages  of  a  liberal  education, 
and  without  reference  to  any  particular  profession,  placed  him  in  the  Union 
Academy  of  his  native  Town,  and  afterwards  in  Union  College  in  Schenec- 
tady,  N.  Y.,  where  he  was  graduated   in   the  year   1S31,  and  from  which  he 
received  the  second  degree  in  the  Arts,  in  1834.     An  "aa I  eundem"  degree,  in 
recognition  of  his  distinguished  scholarship,  was  conferred  upon  him  by  the 
College  of  New  Jersey  in  the  year   1868.     After  his  graduation  from  Union 
College,  he  pursued  a  course  of  study  in  advanced  science  in  the   Polytechnic 
Institution,  at  Troy,  N.  Y.      About  this  period  he  providentially  made  the 
acquaintance   of  a  young  gentleman   in   attendance   on   the    Medical   School 
connected   with   the   University  of  Pennsylvania,  who,  being  enthusiastically 
interested    in    the    fascinating    branches  of   knowledge    pertaining    to    Medi- 
cal Science,  imparted  some  of  his  ardor  to  this  young  graduate.      Prepared 
by  his  previous  pursuits  to  perceive  and  appreciate  the  rich  field  for  scientific 
cultivation  and  enjoyment  presented  by  the  study  of  medicine  and  its  cognate 
sciences,  young  Wickes   resolved   to  make    the   profession   of   medicine    the 
occupation   of  his   life,  and   put   himself  under   the   tutelage  of  his  uncle  Dr. 
Thomas  W.  Blatchford,  of  Troy.     After  a  short  period  of  elementary  study 
under  the  care  of  that  gentleman,  he  matriculated  in  the  University  of  Perm- 


72  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

sylvania,  and  in  the  year  1834  received  from  that  institution  his  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Medicine.  He  immediately  began  practice  in  the  City  of  New- 
York,  but  was  soon  induced  to  remove  to  Troy,  where  he  spent  fifteen  yean;, 
part  of  that  time  in  association  with  his  former  preceptor,  Dr.  Blatchford.  At 
the  end  of  that  period  he  removed  to  Orange,  which  he  made  the  place  of  his 
permanent  residence,  acquiring  an  enviable  reputation  for  his  medical  skill, 
his  exemplar)'  life  and  his  general  usefulness.  Here  he  continued  to  reside, 
honored  and  esteemed  until  his  overworked  brain  succumbed  to  nervous 
exhaustion,  and  finally  a  stroke  of  paralysis  terminated  his  life  on  the  8th  of 
July,  18S9. 

Dr.  Wickes  twice  married,  first  in  1S35  to  Mary,  daughter  of  Isaac 
Heyer,  Esq.,  of  New  York,  and  in  1841,  to  Lydia  Matilda,  widow  of  Dr. 
William  VanSinderin,  and  daughter  of  Joseph  Howard,  Esq.,  of  Brooklyn. 

Dr.  Wickes'  connection  with  this  Society  began  in  the  year  1853.  The 
Society's  records  bear  testimony  to  the  regularity  of  his  attendance,  his 
punctilious  faithfullness  in  the  performance  of  every  duty  assigned  to  him,  his 
regard  for  rthe  honor  and  advancement  of  the  profession  and  his  valuable 
service  in  some  of  the  most  important  matters  that  have  claimed  the  Society's 
attention. 

Dr.  Wickes  was  early  chosen  to  represent  this  Society  in  the  Medical 
Society  of  New  Jersey,  in  which  he  took  his  place  with  universal  consent 
among  its  most  wise,  efficient  and  influential  members.  His  eminent  ability 
and  his  unpaid  services  as  Chairman  of  the  Standing  Committee  of  that 
Society,  it  would  be  impossible  to  overestimate.  If  he  was  not  the  originator, 
he  was  the  chief  promoter  of  the  annual  publication  of  the  Society's  transac- 
tions. To  him  is  due  the  credit,  in  the  beginning  at  least,  of  carefully  digesting 
the  material  for  the  press,  and  exercising  the  delicate  function  of  editorialship. 
by  which  essays,  sometimes  crude,  redundant  and  rhetorically  incorrect,  were 
brought  into  conformity  with  the  requirements  of  good  taste  and  made  to 
assume  a  finish  and  grace  that  might  well  be  a  grateful  surprise  to  their 
authois.  As  a  result  we  have  now  regularlv  the  creditable  outcome  of  an 
annual  volume  of  real  value,  containing  original  papers  on  various  subjects 
contributed  by  members,  and  historical  gleanings  gathered  from  all  parts  of 
the  State,  of  Medical  information  of  the  greatest  practical  importance.  In 
this  respect  New  Jersey  may  challenge  comparison  with  any  State  in  the 
Union,  and  for  the  honor  she  may  claim  on  this  account,  she  is  largely 
indebted  to  Dr.  Wickes.  Nor  do  our  obligations  stop  here.  With  much 
labor  and  patient  research  he  prepared  in  1879  a  volume  of  449  pages  entitled 


DR.    STEPHEN    W1CKES. 


73 


'•The  History  of  Medicine  in  New  Jersey,  and  of  its  Medical  Men  from  the 
settlement  of  the  Province  to  A.  D.  1800,"  which  he  loyally  dedicated  to  the 
State  Society.  Who  but  he  could  have  undertaken  such  a  great  task  ?  Who 
but  he  could  have  so  completely  executed  it  ?  All  honor  to  the  brother  to 
whom  all  honor  is  due.  At  a  later  period  Dr.  Wickes  published  a  work  on 
the  subject  of  "  Sepulture,"  its  history,  its  methods  and  its  sanitary  requisites, 
which  has  received  much  commendation  for  its  research  and  practical  sugges- 
tions.  The  eminent  ability  of  Dr.  Wickes  as  Chairman  of  the  Standing 
Committee  caused  him  to  be  retained  in  that  position  for  a  longer  time  (25 
years)  than  any  previous  occupant  and  postponed  for  many  years  his  promotion 
to  the  Presidency  of  the  Society.  He  was  elected  to  that  chair  in  the  year 
1883,  and,  while  occupying  that  office,  he  read  as  his  inaugural  address  a 
learned  and  philosophical  paper  entitled  "  Living  and  Dying,  their  Physics 
and  Psychics,"  which  is  published  in  full  in  the  Society's  transactions. 

Dr.  Wickes'  contributions  to  the  public  good  were  not  limited  by  his 
relations  to  the  medical  profession.  Enterprises  for  the  promotion  of  the 
education  and  for  the  amelioration  of  the  condition  of  the  race,  its  moral  and 
intellectual  elevation,  received  from  him  a  cordial  co-operation.  While  a 
resident  of  Troy,  he  was  chosen  a  trustee  of  Rennsselaer  Polytechnic  Insti- 
tution of  that  City,  and  since  his  removal  to  New  Jersey,  he  has  manifested 
a  lively  interest  in  her  literary  and  scientific  institutions,  and  her  public 
schools. 

As  has  already  been  stated,  he  had  great  fondness  for  historical  research. 
Soon  after  he  became  a  resident  of  the  State  he  connected  himself  with  the 
Historical  Society  of  New  Jersey,  and  on  the  death  of  its  Corresponding 
Secretary,  Mr.  William  A.  Whitehead,  he  was  chosen  his  successor,  and 
laborious  as  was  the  task,  he  discharged  the  duties  with  distinguished  ability 
and  universal  approval.  He  gave  much  attention  to  local  history,  prepared 
several  biographical  papers  and  had  almost  ready  for  publication  a  History  of 
the  Town  of  his  residence,  and  the  surrounding  Villages,  comprehended  under 
the  name  of  the  Oranges,  when  interrupted  by  the  obscuration  of  his  mental 
powers  that  preceeded  his  death. 

The  requirements  of  an  obituary  minute,  do  not  call  for,  nor  do  its 
limitations  admit  of,  a  critical  analysis  of  the  intellectual  gifts  of  the  subject  of 
this  notice.  A  brief  reference  to  a  few  of  the  more  obvious  distinguishing 
characteristics  of  our  deceased  brother  and  friend  is  all  that  for  the  present 
occasion  is  admissible;  but  what  pen  less  facile  than  his  own  is  equal  to  the 
theme  ?     Who   can  fitly  describe  the  venerable  aspect   which,  wherever  he 


74  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

appeared  made  him  the  "observed  of  all  observers,"  the  dignified  bearing, 
without  austerity,  that  commanded  universal  respect ;  the  self-contained  reserve 
that  discouraged  unwonting  familiarity,  yet  sweetly  relaxed  when  with  pleasant 
smile  and  cordial  grasp  he  welcomed  the  friend  whom  he  had  admitted  to  the 
sanctuary  of  his  affections ;  his  gentle  courtesy,  accessible  to  all  who  needed 
his  counsel,  or  could  rightly  claim  his  attention,  and  always  responsive  to  the 
solicitations  of  heaven-born  Charity  ;  his  unblemished  character  and  the  high 
moral  sense  that  would  never  consent  to  surrender  truth  and  right  to  the 
plausable  pleadings  of  expediency.  His  accomplishments  in  Literature,  in 
Science  and  Historical  Lore,  the  scholarly  grace  wherewith  whatever  he 
touched  he  adorned  ;  his  love  of  order,  heaven's  first  law,  which,  united  with 
the  law  of  kindness,  Mr.  Ruskin  has  so  beautifully  described  as  containing  the 
essential  instincts  of  humanity,  and,  what  more  immediately  concerns  us,  his 
eminent  qualifications  as  a  practicing  physician,  his  accurate  diagnosis,  his  . 
wise  selection  of  remedial  agents,  the  firmness,  conjoined  with  delicate  kind- 
ness, with  which  he  insisted  on  their  administration,  and  the  proper  regimen  of 
the  chamber  of  sickness,  and  his  promptness  to  respond  to  the  demands  ol 
professional  service  at  all  hours,  in  all  seasons  and  in  behalf  of  all  sufferers 
without  regard  to  rank  or  race,  wealth  or  social  position.  These  marked 
features  of  his  character  were  patent  to  all  who  intimately  knew  him,  and  are 
to  be  estimated  rather  than  portrayed,  imitated  rather  than  described.  To 
these  it  must  be  added  that  he  was  a  close  observer,  a  cogent  reasoner, 
a  sound  thinker,  considerate,  judicious,  just,  decided  in  his  opinions,  pro- 
nounced in  their  expression,  firm  and  courteous  in  their  defence  and  in  all 
circumstances,  conciliatory,  and  kind,  a  patriotic  citizen,  a  true  friend. 
Doubtless  he  had  faults,  else  had  he  not  been  human  ;  but,  as  with  Gold- 
smith's  Rural   Pastor,  "  Ev'n  his  failings  leaned  to  virtue's  side." 

We  refrain  from  intrusion  into  the  privacy  of  his  home,  that  home  of 
peace,  of  piety,  of  generous  hospitality  and  love,  to  delineate  the  virtues  and 
affections  that  embelished  his  domestic  life.  Let  it  suffice  that  we  give 
expression  to  our  sincere  sympathy  with  those  whom  he  dearly  loved,  and  to 
whom  he  was  tenderly  endeared.  It  remains  that  brief  reference  be  made  to 
Ur.  Wickes'  religious  character.  He  was  pre-eminently  a  Christian, and  wherever 
he  dwelt  and  whithersoever  he  went  he  adorned  his  profession.  As  in  the 
place  of  his  more  recent  abode,  so  in  his  former  home,  in  another  State,  he 
held  official  relations  with  the  church  to  which  he  was  attached,  was 
unwavering  in  his  faith,  exemplary  in  his  life,  and,  as  the  time  of  his  departure 
drew  near  he  might  modestly  but  confidently  have  affirmed  with  the  Apostle, 
"  I  have  fought  a  good  fight,  I  have  finished  my  course,  I  have  kept  the  Faith.'' 


REV.    HENRY    WICKES.  75 

"  I  shall  not  all  die,"  said  a  Roman  poet,  anticipating  the  deathless  renown 
with  which  his  harmonious  measures  and  the  sparkling  sallies  of  his  genius 
would  enshrine  his  name.  In  a  nobler  sense,  and  with  more  triumphant 
exultation  could  our  brother,  had  utterance  been  given  him  as  the  dark 
shadow  brooded  over  him,  looking  forward  to  a  loftier  and  more  glorious 
immortality,  have  exclaimed,  "I  shall  not  die,  but — LIVE." 


REV.   HENRY   WICKES. 

Henry  Wickes  was  born  February  11,  1821,  at  Jamaica,  Long  Island, 
and  removed  to  Troy  with  his  father  in  1835  or  1836.  He  was  the  publisher 
of  the  New  York  Evangelist  from  December,  1841,  to  January,  1843,  and  was 
in  other  business  before  that.  He  entered  Marietta  College,  Ohio,  in  1S43, 
and  was  graduated  there  in  1848,  at  the  age  of  twenty-seven.  He  studied  for 
the  ministry  one  year  at  Yale  and  two  years  at  Andover,  graduating  there  in 
1851. 

His  first  charge  was  in  Princeton,  Mass.,  a  beautiful  parish  on  the  slope 
of  Wachusett  Mountain.  While  there  he  met  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Doctor 
Horatio  Bardwell,  of  Oxford,  Mass.,  to  whom  he  was  married  May  8,  1856. 
She  was  his  beloved  companion  from  that  time. 

After  his  marriage  he  labored  faithfully  at  his  chosen  profession  at 
Guilford  and  Deep  River  in  Connecticut,  and  at  Brighton,  Gates,  Alden, 
Webster,  and  Corfu,  in  New  York  State.  For  the  last  ten  years  of  his  life 
he  was  only  able  to  preach  occasionally  and  lived  quietly  at  No.  12  Oxford 
street  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.  During  this  period  he  was  a  constant  attendant 
at  the  Third  Presbyterian  Church. 

By  birth  and  training  a  moderate  conservative,  his  mind  was  yet  singularly 
hospitable  to  any  new  thought  which  brought  its  own  evidence  with  it. 
Although  in  the  eddy  of  his  quiet  life  in  later  years  he  could  take  no  active 
part  in  the  strenuous  forward  movements  of  Christian  thought  and  work,  yet 
he  had  no  sympathy  with  those  who  always  said  the  old  days  and  the  old 
ways  were  the  best  and  the  modern  world  was  all  going  wrong.  He  was  one 
of  those  men  whose  faces  are  always  set  toward  the  light.  Being  serenely 
confident  of  the  ultimate  triumph  of  the  truth,  he  had  in  him  none  of  the 
spirit  of  mere  contention.  He  was  full  of  sane,  "sweet  reasonableness." 
Indeed  to  an  unusual  degree  he  combined  those  great  qualities  of  "sweetness 
and    light."       Utterly  unconscious    of   himself,    modest    and    self-depreciating 


76  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

almost  to  a  fault,  talking  little,  especially  in  his  later  years,  he  never  opened 
his  mouth  except  to  say  some  wise,  considerate,  or  gentle  word.  Though  he 
would  have  been  the  last  man  in  the  world  to  dream  it  of  himself,  and  would 
have  been  embarrassed  and  annoyed  to  hear  anyone  so  speak  of  him  while 
living,  yet  those  who  knew  him  understood  what  is  meant  when  it  is  said  that 
there  was  an  atmosphere  about  him  which  made  one  think  of  the  beloved 
disciple  in  his  old  age  when  the  music  of  Christ's  great  message  of  love  had 
attuned  his  spirit  to  itself.  His  nature  seemed  to  grow  mellower  with  the 
years  until  his  presence  in  any  company  seemed  to  be  felt  literally  as  a  bene- 
diction. He  will  live  in  the  memories  of  all  who  knew  him  as  a  rare  type  of 
the  perfect  Christian  gentleman. 

If  men  first  put  their  words  into  the  balances  of  exact  truth,  it  is  a 
weighty  epitaph  when  one  is  able  to  say,  as  can  be  said  of  Mr.  Wickes  ;  "Fie 
was  a  good  man."  And  if  success  is  counted  by  love  shown  to  one's  fellowmen, 
by  purity  of  life  and  motive,  and  by  the  growing  respect  and  love  and  rever- 
ence which,  without  being  aware  of  it,  he  called  forth  for  himself  in  return, 
then  the  long  and  gentle  life  which  has  just  rounded  itself  so  beautifully  in 
sleep,  should  win  for  itself  the  applause  of  those  who  knew  him,  as  a  rarely 
successful  life.  Doubtless  he  has  already  heard  the  plaudits  of  his  Master, 
"  Well  done,  good  and  faithful  servant  ;  thou  hast  been  faithful  over  a  few 
things ;  I  will  make  thee  ruler  over  many  things.  Enter  thou  into  the  joy  of 
thy  Lord." 

The  chamber  where  a  good  man  meets  his  fate 
Is  privileged  beyond  the  common  walks  of  life — 
Quite  on  the  verge  of  heaven. 

R.  D.  H. 

Rochester,  N.  Y.,  March  24,  1897. 


WILLIAM   W.   WICKES. 

In  the  death  of  William  W.  'Wickes  of  Brooklyn,  which  occurred  on 
February  19,  1900,  not  only  the  Lafayette  Avenue  Church,  but  the  church  at 
large,  has  lost  a  most  valuable  member.  For  a  period  of  forty  years,  Mr. 
Wickes  has  not  only  been  deeply  interested  and  active  in  everything  connect- 
ed with  the  interests  and  enterprises  of  the  Lafayette  Church,  of  which  he  was 
one  of  the  organizers,  but,  it  may  be  truthfully  said,  with  every  benevolent 
and  philanthropic  interest  of  the  city  of  Brooklyn  also. 


WILLIAM    \Y.    WICKES.  77 

An  enterprising,  successful  and  very  bus)-,  business  man,  he  was  also  at 
different  times  President  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  and  the 
Children's  Aid  Society,  and  for  years  Superintendent  of  the  Cumberland  Street 
Mission  School,  now  organized  as  a  church,  and  until  this  church  was  estab- 
lished upon  a  self-supporting  basis,  he  paid  the  salary  of  the  pastor  himself. 

He  was  also  active  in  organizing  and  supporting  the  Home  for  Aged 
Men,  a  work  which  enlisted  his  deepest  sympathy  and  interest.  His  gifts  to 
the  various  causes  of  the  church,  especially  the  Home  and  Foreign  Mission- 
ary Societies,  were  large  and  frequent  and  unsolicited. 

It  can  indeed  be  said  of  Mr.YVickes.as  truly, probably, as  of  any  man  who 
ever  lived,  that  it  was  a  delight  to  him  to  give.  Every  channel  of  benevolence 
by  which  the  kingdom  of  Christ  could  be  extended,  or  human  distress  relieved, 
received  from  him  unstinted  aid. 

Mr.  Wickes  had  a  rich  inheritance  in  an  enterprising,  Christian  and 
patriotic  ancestry. 

Obtaining  a  thorough  business  education  as  a  youth  in  Troy,  in  1844  he 
came  to  New  York  and  formed  a  co-partnership  in  the  general  produce  busi- 
ness under  the  name  of  Wallace  &  Wickes. 

This  company  furnished  the  government  large  supplies  of  provisions 
during  the  Civil  War. 

In  April,  1861,  under  secret  instructions  from  the  Government  he  loaded 
the  steamer,  "  Star  of  the  West,"  which  carried  the  supplies  to  Colonel  Ander- 
son and  his  famishing  troops  in  their  gallant  defense  of  Fort  Sumter. 

At  a  time  during  the  Civil  War,  when  spoiled  pork  and  other  army 
rations  were  furnished  to  our  brave  men  at  the  front  by  unprincipled 
merchants,  the  goods  of  this  firm  were  received  without  examination,  the 
firm's  name  being  a  guarantee  of  quality. 

Later  Mr.  Wickes  became  interested  in  a  patent  for  refrigeration  by 
means  of  a  forced  current  of  air  through  ice,  and  sent  to  Liverpool  the  first 
consignment  of  American  dressed  meat  ever  shipped  to  European  ports. 

The  Wickes  refrigerator  car  is  also  a  product  of  Mr.  Wickes'  capital  and 
enterprise.  The  characteristics  of  Mr.  Wickes  stand  out  perhaps  most  prom- 
inently in  the  history  of  the  mining  town  of  Wickes,  Montana. 

The  working  of  the  mine  belonging  to  Mr.  Wickes  in  this  mountain  place 
had  for  several  years  been  entrusted  to  such  overseers  as  were  obtainable. 
He    decided    to    visit    it    himself    and     arrived,    if    the    writer    remembers 


/S  WICKES   GENEALOGY. 

correctly,  on  a  Saturday.  There  had  up  to  this  time  been  no  cessation  of 
operations  on  the  Sabbath.  But  on  the  Sunday  following  the  arrival  of  Mr. 
Wickes  not  a  wheel  turned.  Addressing  the  men  he  invited  them  to  a 
Gospel  meeting.  This  was  the  beginning  of  a  transformation.  Mr.  Wickes 
remained  many  months  instituting  numberless  reforms,  providing  many  privi- 
leges and  benefits,  and  himself  conducted  religious  services  until  a  church  was 
formed  and  a  pastor  procured. 


REV.  JOHN    WICKES. 

Rev.  John  Wickes  passed  peacefully  to  rest,  on  Wednesday  evening 
June  5,  at  seven  o'clock. 

His  was  a  long  and  very  painful  illness,  borne  with  fortitude  and  patience. 

A  life  was  slowly  ebbing  away  in  that  silent  chamber  which  for  thirty- 
seven  years  had  been  a  potential  force  for  good  in  this  community,  per- 
haps none  other  greater,  and  all  seemed  resting  under  the  shadow  of  a 
great  sorrow.  He  had  no  enemies  and  many  friends.  Very  patiently  and  un- 
complainingly he  bore  his  sufferings,  only  asking  that  those  who  loved  him 
would  pray  for  his  speedy  release. 

In  his  extremity  when  asked  what  promise  from  God's  word  in  his  hour 
of  pain  gave  him  greatest  comfort,  he  replied,  "  I  am  with  thee." 

Many  are  the  strong  and  vital  truths  that  through  the  years  he  has  taught 
from  the  pulpit,  but  no  more  forceful  message  ever  fell  from  his  lips  than 
he  sent  to  the  people  through  his  pastor  but  three  weeks  before  his  death 
"Tell  the  people  that  I  believe — looking  into  the  future  and  into  the  very 
face  of  God,  I  believe — that  which  I  preached  to  them  for  twenty-five  years." 
Some  twenty-four  hours  before  his  death  he  requested  the  pastor  of  the  church 
to  pray  with  him,  when  he  bade  his  daughter  and  those  who  were  by  his  bed- 
side a  last  goodbye  and  once  more  declared  his  trust  in  "the  promises  of  God,'' 
he  relapsed  into  unconsciousness  from  which  he  never  again  recovered  until 
death  released  him.  His  life  had  ever  preached  noblest  sermons,  these  last 
trying  weeks  had  only  preached  a  nobler,  richer  one.  Rev.  John  Wickes  was 
born  in  Jamaica,  February  14,  1823,  and  his  early  boyhood  was  spent  in 
Jamaica  and  Troy,  whither  his  father  removed  in  1836. 

He  entered  Yale  College  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  intending  to  study  medi- 
cine, but  in  the  second  year  of  his  college  course  he  openly  professed  Christi- 
anity and  decided  to  study  for  the  ministry.  To  this  end,  after  graduating 
from  Yale,  he  entered  Andover  Seminary  in  1844. 


REV.    JOHN    WICKES.  79 

President  Woolsey,  of  Yale,  and  Dr.  Nathaniel  W.  Taylor,  in  Andover, 
were  strong  influences  in  the  developing  and  moulding  of  his  life  during 
these  college  and  seminary  years.  Of  the  latter,  Mr.  Wickes  once  said  that 
Dr.  Green  was  one  of  the  grandest  men  and  keenest  logicians  he  had  ever 
known.  Mr.  Wickes  was  graduated  from  Andover  in  1S47  and  offered  him- 
self to  the  Congregational  Board  as  foreign  missionary  to  India,  but  it  was 
feared  by  the  Board  that  his  health  was  too  frail  to  endure  the  necessary  hard- 
ships. Shortly  after,  he  became  pastor  of  the  Congregational  church  in 
Canaan,  N.  Y.,  where  he  remained  eight  years,  when  he  resigned  and  went  to 
Europe,  for  a  few  months  of  foreign  travel.  Upon  his  return,  he  accepted  a 
call  to  the  church  in  Brighton,  N.  Y.,  where  he  remained  until  his  marriage  to 
Amy  Moore  of  that  place  in  1862,  and  then  accepted  the  pastorate  of  the 
Presbyterian  church  of  Attica,  N.  Y.  How  earnestly  and  successfully  he 
labored  in  this  field  is  too  well  known  for  extended  comment.  It  was  during 
his  pastorate  that  the  present  beautiful  church  edifice  was  erected,  in  which 
work  he  was  a  very  potent  factor. 

He  resigned  his  pastorate  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Attica  in  Febru- 
ary, 1889,  since  which  time  he  has  remained  an  honored  resident  of  this  village. 

As  pastor  of  the  church,  he  wielded  a  wide  and  powerful  influence  in  the 
community.  Since  his  retirement  from  active  work  his  influence  has  seemed 
to  be  none  the  less  potent.  He  was  loved  and  honored  by  his  associate 
ministers  in  Western  New  York,  especially  in  his  own  Presbytery,  where  his 
loss  will  be  deeply  felt. 

Mr.  Wickes  was  a  man  singularly  devoid  of  personal  ambition,  and  though 
flattering  calls  came  to  him  unsought  from  larger  and  more  influential  churches, 
he  refused  to  "  accept "  them. 

His  ability  would  have  eminently  fitted  him  for  the  larger  field,  but  this 
was  never  to  be  considered,  where  there  seemed  in  another  direction  a  call 
of  duty. 

He  was  a  man  of  scholarly  attainments,  fine  mental  endowments,  large 
heart  and  simple  child-like  faith.  He  was  a  preacher  of  gentle  and  persuasive 
eloquence.  He  taught  the  knowledge  of  God  with  a  logical  clearness,  the 
sympathy  of  a  loving  man  and  the  enthusiasm  of  a  loving  Christian.  He  was 
a  model  of  a  Christian  gentleman,  and  a  cultured  Christian  minister.  It  is  a 
rare  tribute  that  was  paid  to  him  in  these  words.  "  I  cannot  recall  a  word  of 
his  I  would  wish  unsaid,  one  act  I  would  wish  undone."  Those  who  are  left 
behind  feel  in  his  going  home  a  deep  sense  of  personal  loss,  yet  those  who 
loved  him  best  "will  grudge  him  least  his  welcome  home." 


SO  WICKF.S    GENEALOGY. 

INSCRIPTION    IN    BIBLE 

IN    HANDWRITING    OF    ELIPHALET    WICKES. 

"  Presented  to  Eliphalet  Wickes  Blatchford  by  his  grandfather 

Eliphalet  Wickes.      This  Bible  contains  an  extended 

family  Record.     Troy,  Nov.  20th,  1S43." 

Thomas  Wickes,  born  Aug.  21,1  740,  died  at  Jamaica  Nov.  30,  1819,  aged 
79  years,  3  months,  9  days. 

Abigail,  his  wife,  born  Sept.  1  748,  died  at  Jamaica,  Mar.  15,  1 816,  aged 
67  years,  6  months. 

CHILDREN    OF    T.    AND    A.    WICKES  : 

Scudder,  born  at  Huntington,  Sept.  9,  1767,  died  at  Norwalk,  Sept.  28, 
1776,  aged  9  years,  19  days. 

Eliphalet,  born  at  Huntington,  April  1,  1769. 

Frances,  born  at  Huntington,  Oct.  25,  1770,  died  at  Norwalk,  Sept.  30, 
1776,  aged  5  years,  11  months,  5  days. 

Van  Wyck,  born  at  Huntington,  Mar.  4,  1773,  died  at  Norwalk,  Oct.  2, 
1776,  aged  3  years,  6  months,  28  days. 

Thomas,  born  at  Huntington,  Mar.  25,  1775,  died  at  Fishkill,  Aug.  14, 
1779,  aged  4  years,  4  months,  20  days. 

Frances  (2d),  born  at  Fishkill,  Mar.  30,  1777,  died  at  Fishkill,  Feb.  6, 
1778,  aged  10  months,  7  days. 

Van  Wyck  (2d),  born  at  Fishkill,  April  29,  1779. 

Hannah,  born  at  Fishkill,  Dec.  5,  1  7S1,  died  at  Jamaica,  Mar.  8,  1816, 
aged  34  years,  2  months,  29  days. 

Thomas  (2d),  born  at  Huntington  South,  Mar.  19, 1  784.  died  at  New  York, 
yellow  fever,  Oct.  12,  1S01,  aged  17  years,  6  months,  23  days. 

Scudder  (2d),  born  at  Huntington  So,  May  27,  1786,  died  at  Hunting- 
ton South,  Aug.  26,  1787,  aged  1  year,  1  month,  30  days. 

Harriet  (2d),  born  at  Huntington  South,  May  25,  1789. 

Wickes  family  came  from  England.  Abigail,  wife  of  Thomas  Wickes, 
was  a  Van  Wyck ;  her  family  was  from  Holland. 

Eliphalet  Wickes  married  Martha  Herriman  at  Jamaica,  Nov.  28,  1790. 
Martha  Herriman  was  born  July  23,  1766,  died  at  Jamaica,  May  7,  1824, 
aged  57  years,  9  months,  14  days. 


INSCRIPTION    IN    BIRLE.  Si 


THEIR    CHILDREN  : 


Thomas  Scudder,  born  at  Jamaica,  April  18,  1795,  died  at  Pough- 
kecpsie,  N.  Y.  . 

Eliza  Martha,  born  at  Jamaica,  Feb.  5,  1S01,  died  at  Troy,  Sept.  9,  1835, 
aged  34  years,  7  months,  4  days. 

Frances,  born  at  Jamaica,  May  12,  1805,  died  at  Chicago,  Illinois. 

Harriet,  born  at  Jamaica,  June  13,  1807,  died  at  Troy,  May  14,  1836,  aged 
28  years,  1 1  months,  1  day. 

Thomas  Scudder  Wickes  married  Maria  Punnett,  of  Island  of  St.  Thomas, 
Sept.  7, 1819.    She  died  April  9,  1821  ;  had  a  son,  Eliphalet,  born  June,  15,1820. 

Frances  Wickes  married  Rev.  John  Blatchford,  May  18,  1825. 

Harriet  Wickes  married  Henry  Punnett,  brother  to  Thomas'  first  wife, 
Aug.  25,  1829. 

Eliza  Martha  Wickes  married  Dr.  Aldis  Allen,  of  Bridgeford,  Conn.,  Nov. 
2  1831. 

Dr.  Allen  died  at  Jacksonville,  Illinois,  when  traveling  with  his  wife, 
Aug.  9;  1833. 

The  mother  of  Martha,  wife  of  Eliphalet  Wickes,  was  a  Denton;  were 
from  England. 


Thomas    Scudder    Wickes   married    second    time,   Julia    Penniman,   of 
Albany,  Sept.  15,  1829. 

THEIR    CHILDREN  : 

Maria  Punnett,  born  at  Sand  Lake,  Oct.  7,  1832. 

Cordelia  Penniman,  born  at  Sand  Lake,  March  22,  1834. 

Henry  Sylvanus,  born  at  Sand  Lake,  Oct.  14,  1835,  died  at  Albany,  Dec. 

27>  1S37. 

Harriet,  born  at  Albany,  Sept.  7,  1837. 
Charlotte  Penniman,  born  at  Ballston,  Aug.  23,  1839. 
James  Henry,  born  at  Ballston,  June  25,  1841. 
Edward  Allen,  born  at  Ballston,  April  10,  1843. 

Eliphalet  Wickes,  Jr.,  son  of  Thomas   S.  Wickes    and   Maria   his  wife, 
married  Ann  Penniman,  of  Albany,  August  16,  1842. 


82 


WICKES    GENEALOGY. 


CHILDREN    OF    REV.    JOHN    BLATCHFORD    AND    FRANCES    HIS    WIFE: 

Eliphalet  Wickes,  born  at  Stillwater,  May  31,  1826. 

Richard  Milford,  born  at  Stillwater,  Aug.  20,  1827,  died  at  Bridgeport, 
Feb.  20,  1832. 

Martha  Wickes,  born  at  Stillwater,  June  17,  1829. 

John  Samuel,  born  at  Bridgeport,  Jan.  19,  1831. 

Frances  Alicia,  born  at  Bridgeport,  Sept  6,  1S32. 

Eliza  Allen,  born  at  Bridgeport,  Sept.  22,  1834,  died  at  Bridgeport,  June 

19.  1S35. 

Harriet  Punnett,  born  at  Jacksonville,  111,  May  9,  1837,  died  at  Chicao-0 
Aug.  7,  183S. 

Eliza  Harriet,  born  at  Chicago,  Nov.  21, 1838,  died  at  Chicago,  Mar.  3,  1839. 
Alexander,  born  at  Wheeling,  Va.,  Jan.  1,  1840. 
Mary  Cebra,  Marion  College,  Mo.,  Oct.  23,  1843. 

CHILDREN    OF    HENRY    PUNNETT    AND    HARRIET    HIS    WIFE: 

Henry  Walter,  born  at  Newtown,  July  20,  1830,  died  at  Jamaica,  Sept. 

20,  1S31. 

Thomas  Wickes,  born  at  Newtown,  Feb.  7,  1832. 

Elizabeth,  born  at  Jamaica,  Sept.  14,  1833,  died  at  Troy,  Aug.  27,  1834. 

William  Henry,  born  at  Troy,  Sept.  19,  1834. 

Henry   Punnett  married  second  time,  April    10,   1838,  Anna  Stewart,  of 
Albany. 

THEIR    CHILDREN: 

Edward  Kirk,  born  at  Troy,  Feb.  19,  1839. 
Anna  Stewart,  born  at  Troy,  Jan.  6,  1S42. 

Anna,  Henry's  wife  died  at  Troy,  Jan.  9,  1842,  aged  28  years,  -  months. 

Van  Wyck  Wickes,  brother  to  Eliphalet  Wickes,  married  Eliza  Hern- 
man,  Sept.  19,  181 1. 

THEIR    CHILDREN  : 

Stephen,  born  at  Jamaica,  March  17,  181 3. 
Thomas,  born  at  Jamaica,  Oct.  31,  18 14. 
Mary,  born  at  Jamaica,  Jan.  28,  181 7. 
William  W,  born  at  Jamaica,  Mar.  13,  1S19. 
Henry,  born  at  Jamaica,  Feb.  11,  1821. 


INSCRIPTION    IN    HIBI.E.  S3  -  W 

John,  born  at  Jamaica,  Feb.  14,  1S23. 

Elizabeth  II.,  born  at  Jamaica,  April  15,  1S25. 

Van  Wyck,  born  at' Jamaica,  June  7,  1S27,  died  at  Jamaica,  Oct.  S,  1S2S. 

Harriet,  born  at  Jamaica,  Oct.  22,  1S29,  died  at  Jamaica,  Sept.  30,  1S31. 

Van  Wyck  (2d),  born  at  Jamaica,  April  24,  1S32. 

Stephen's  first  wife,  Mary  W.  Heyer;    second  wife,  widow  of  Wm.  Van- 
sindren. 

Thomas  married  Mary  A.  Gunn. 
Mary  married  L.  T.  Rossiter. 

Hannah  Wickes,  sister  to  Eliphalet  Wickes,  married  Joseph  L.  Hewlett, 
of  Great  Neck,  Oueens  County. 


THEIR    CHILDREN  : 

Joseph  L.,  married Cornell,  of  Great  Neck. 

Plarriet,  married  William  M.  Smith. 

Harriet  Wickes,  sister  to  Eliphalet,  married  Dr.  Thomas  W.  Blatchford. 

THEIR    CHILDREN  : 

Thomas  Wickes,  born  at  Jamaica,  Feb.  20,  1820. 
Samuel  T.,  born  at  Jamaica,  March  4,  1822. 
John  T.,  born  at  Jamaica,  June  18,  1S23. 

George  Edgecumb,  born  at  Jamaica,  Jan.  26,  1825,  died  at  Troy,  Oct. 
5,  1828. 

Harriet  Wickes, born  at  Jamaica,  May  8, 1828, died  at  Troy,  Aug.  15,  1828. 
Harriet  Wickes  (2d),  born  at  Troy,  Feb.  21,  1829. 

Martha,  wife  of  Eliphalet  WTickcs,  had  two  older  brothers,  Stephen 
and  James  Herriman.  Stephen  died  May,  1792,  of  lockjaw,  produced  by  a 
broken  limb ;  left  three  children.  Mary  married  John  Y.  Cebra,  had  no  child- 
ren. Eliza  married  Van  Wyck  Wickes,  the  record  of  whose  family  is  on 
another  page.  William  S.,  merchant  in  New  York,  has  four  children.  James, 
died  at  Jamaica,  October,  1S01,  of  yellow  fever  taken  in  New  York,  left  five 
children.  Martha,  married  Benjamin  Wright,  has  a  number  of  children. 
James  has  children.  Stephen  lives  in  New  Orleans,  has  children.  Margaret 
died  of  ao-e  unmarried.     John  died  in  New  York,  left  three  children. 


GENEALOGY. 


Thomas  Wickes  (i),  emigrant  of  1635,  married  Isabella  Harcutt,  of 
Oyster  Bay,  and  died  in  1671.  Will  probated  March  19,  1671.  Their  children 
were  as  follows : 

1.  Thomas  (2)  (below). 

2.  John,  born    1652  or   1653,  married   (license   dated  April   25), 

1673,  Hester,  daughter  of  John  Ketcham,  of  Huntington. 
He  was  living  in  1 730. 
%    Rebecca. 

4.  Martha. 

5.  Elizabeth. 

6.  M  ary. 

7.  Sarah. 

Thomas  Wickes  (2),  of  the  second  generation,  born  probably  in  Oyster 
Bay,  1650  or  1651,  died  about  1725.  His  wife  was  Deborah.  He  was 
imprisoned  by  Governor  Andros,  of  Connecticut,  in  1681  ;  received  captain's 
commission  in  1690;  was  sent,  April  3,  1691,  to  County  Convention  held 
for  the  choice  of  two  members  of  Assembly. 

In  1704  he  deeds  certain  land  to  his  son,  Philip,  in  consideration  of 
"natural  love  and  affection,"  and  in  1714  to  his  son,  Samuel,  for  same  consid- 
eration, also  the  same  year  to  his  son,  Joseph.    Their  children  were  as  follows: 

1.  Thomas  (3),  born  about  1676. 

2.  Philip,  had  wife,  Martha,  in  1699. 

3.  Samuel. 


Note.— Richard  Harcutt  was  an  inhabitant  of  Oyster  Bay,  1689.  Savage,  in  his  genealo- 
gies, names  his  children. 

Thomas  and  John  were  the  only  two  "Wickes  "rated"  in  Huntington,  1683.  (Doc.  Hist, 
of  New  York.) 

In  1686  an  official  list  of  all  the  inhabitants  of  Huntington,  signed  by  Thomas  Wickes, 
states  that  the  family  of  John  Weeks  contained  males  4,  females  2;  and  the  family  of  Thomas 
Weekes  contained  males  3,  females  4. 


86  WICKES   GENEALOGY. 

4.  Joseph,  married  Hannah  Lewis.     Will  proved  1746. 

5.  Rufh,  probably   married,  first,  Brush;  second,  Joshua 

Wood. 

6.  ■ married  Thomas  Corey. 

Thomas  Wickes  (3),  of  the  third  generation,  was  born  about  1676,  died 
October  24,  1749,  in  his  74th  year,  as  shown  by  inscription  on  his  tombstone 
at  Huntington.  His  wife,  Margaret,  died  September  iS,  1767,  aged  85 
Their  children  were  as  follows: 

1.  Thomas,  born  about  1703,  died  December  20,  1749,  in  his  46th 

year.      Had   one   child,   Deborah,   baptized   December    15, 
1742. 

2.  Silas,  married  January  23,  1727,  Sarah  Rogers. 

3.  Eliphalet  (1),  born  about  1707  (below). 

Eliphalet  Wickes,  of  the  fourth  generation,  was  born  1707  or  170S; 
married  March  26,  1730,  Hannah  Piatt;  she  died  in  1731.  Married,  second. 
Jemima,  daughter  of  Jonathan  Scudder,  December  8,  1732;  she  died  Novem- 
ber 3,  1776,  aged  6S.  He  was  Town  Clerk  of  Huntington,  1748;  also  after- 
wards Justice  of  the  Sessions.  Fie  died  June  30,  1761.  Their  children  were 
as  follows: 

1.  Piatt,  baptized  May  9,  1  73 1. 

2.  Margaret,   born   April    29,  baptized   May   26,    1734     Married 

July  24,  1 75 1,  to  Dr.  Samuel  Allen. 

3.  Hannah,   born    September   29,   baptized    November    2,    1735. 

Married  April  23,  1753,  to  John  Brush. 

4.  Eliphalet,  born  March   10,  1738,  baptized  March   26th.     Died 

a  minor. 

5.  Mary,  baptized  July  27,   1740.     Married  January  14,  1766,  to 

Rev.  John  Close,  colleague  pastor  of  church  at  Huntington 
1766  to  1773.  He  died  at  Waterford,  N.  J.,  1813.  She 
died   1 8 14. 

6.  Thomas  (4),  born  August  10,  1744  (below). 


Note. — From  original  deeds  and  wills  of  Jonathan  Scudder,  Jr.  and  Sr.,  in  the  posses- 
sion of  the  Editor,  it  is  evident  that  some  property  came  to  the  Wickes  family  from  this 
Scudder  marriage.  The  gravestones  of  the  Jonathan  Scudder  family  still  stand  in  the  Hunt- 
ington gra\eyard. 

The  Will  of  Henry  Scudder,  made  January  25,  1661,  recorded  in  page  50  of  the  Hunt- 
ington Town  Records,  Vol.   I,  bequeathes   to   his  four  children,   Moses,   David,   Mary  and 


THOMAS    WICK.ES.  C-. 

6 1 

Thomas  Wickes  (4).  of  the  fifth  generation  (for  life,  see  page  48),  born 
August  io,  17.14,  died  November  30,  1S19;  married,  first,  May  13,  1762,  Sarah 
Brush;  married,  second,  September  S,  1767,  Abigail  Van  Wyck,  daughter  of 
Barent  Van  Wyck  and  Hannah  Carmen.  She  was  born  in  1748,  and  died 
March  15,  1816.  There  was  no  living  issue  of  the  first  marriage.  Of  the 
second,  11  children,  viz. : 

1.  Scudder,  born  at  Huntington,  September  9,  1768,  died  at  Nor- 

walk,  Conn.,  September  28,  1776. 

2.  Eliphalet,  born  at  Huntington,  April  1,  baptized  July  4,  1769; 

died  at  Troy,  N.  Y.,  June  7,  1850  (below). 

3.  Frances,  born  at  Huntington,  October  25,  1770,  died  at  Nor- 

walk,  Conn.,  September  30,  1776. 

4.  Van    Wyck,   born    at    Huntington,    March    4,    1773,    died    at 

Norwalk,  Conn.,  October  2,  1776,  aged  3  years. 

5.  Thomas,  born  at  Huntington,  March  25,  1775,  died  at  Fishkill, 

aged  4  years. 

6.  Frances  (2),  born  at  Fishkill  Barracks,  March  30,  1777,  died  at 

Fishkill  Barracks,  aged  10  months. 

7.  Van  Wyck  (2),  born  at  Fishkill  Barracks,  April  29, 1 779,  baptized 

July  13,  1783  ;  died  at  Orange,  N.  J.,  June  13, 1865  (below). 

8.  Hannah,  born  at  Fishkill   Barracks,  December,  1781,  died  at 

Jamaica,  L.  I.,  March  S,  1S16  (below). 

9.  Thomas  (2),  born  at  Huntington,  March  19, 1  784,  died  at  New 

York  City  of  yellow  fever,  October  12,  1801. 

10.  Scudder  (2),  born  at  Huntington,  May  27,  1786,  died  at  Hunt- 

ington, aged  1  year. 

11.  Harriet,   born   at    Huntington,   May   25,    1789,  died   at  Troy, 

N.  Y.,  April  12,  1875. 

Four  of  the  above  left  issue,  Eliphalet,  Van  Wyck,  Hannah  and  Flarriet, 
to  be  recorded  in  the  tribes  of  each. 


Rebecca,  ten  poinds  each,  and  to  his  eldest  son,  Jonathan,  twenty  pounds,  and  the  house 
and  land  which  his  grandfather  left  him  by  will.  His  wife,  Catherine,  is  executrix,  and  she 
executes  to  her  said  son,  Jonathan,  the  grandfather  of  Jemima  Wickes,  the.  deed  now  in  my 
possession,  referred  to  on  page  23,  supra. 

The  Town  Records  also  state  that  this  Catherine  was  the  daughter  of  Jeffrey  or  Geffrey 
Esty,  and  after  the  death  of  Henry  Scudder,  married  Thomas  Jones,  the  brother  of  Rev. 
John  Jones. 

Jonathan  Scudder,  eldest  son  of  Henry  and  Catherine,  died  December  10,  1690,  leaving 
a  son,  Jonathan,  a  wife,  Sarah,  and  three  daughters,  Sarah,  Abigail  and  Rebecca.  This  son, 
Jonathan,  was  the  father  of  Jemima  Scudder,  born  170s,  who  married  Eliphalet  Wickes. 


88  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

TRIBE  OF  ELIPHALET,  OF  THE  SIXTH  GENERATION. 

Eliphalet  Wickes  (2)  (for  life,  see  page  54),  born  April  1,  1769;  mar- 
ried November  28,  1790,  Martha  Herriman;  she  was  born  July  23,  1766,  and 
died  at  Jamaica,  May  7,  1824,31  the  age  of  57.  He  died  June  7,  1850.  Their 
issue  as  follows : 

1.  Thomas  Scudder,  born  at  Jamaica,  L,  I.,  April  18,  1795,  died  at 

Poughkeepsie,  November  30,  1S76  (below). 

2.  Eliza  Martha,  born  at  Jamaica,  L.  I.,  February  5,  1801,  married 

Dr.  Aldis    Allen,  and    died    at   Troy,  September  9,   1835. 
No  children.     He  died  August  9,  1833  at  Jacksonville,  111 

3.  Frances,  born  at  Jamaica,  L.  I.,  May  12,  1805,  baptized  May 

12,  1805;  died  at  Chicago,  January  18,  1875.     She  married 
Rev.  John  Blatchford  (below). 

4.  Harriet,  born  at  Jamaica,  L.  1..  June  13,  1807,  died  at  Troy 

May  14,  1836;  married  Henry  Punnett  (below). 


THOMAS   S.  WICKES. 

Rev.  Thomas  Scudder  Wickes,  of  the  seventh  generation,  son  of 
Eliphalet,  married  (1)  Maria  Punnett,  September  7,  18 19.  She  died  at 
Jamaica,  April  9,  1821.  He  married  (2)  Julia  Penniman,  daughter  of  Sylvanus 
and  Olive  Fitch  Penniman,  of  Albany,  September  15,  1829.  She  was  born 
at  Lansingburg,  N.  Y.,  January  31,  1809,  and  died  November  17,  1895,  at 
Poughkeepsie,  aged  86  years.     Child  by  first  marriage: 

1.  Eliphalet  (3),  born  at  Jamaica,  L.  I.,  June  15,  1820  (below). 
Children  by  second  marriage  : 

2.  Maria  Punnett,  born  at  Sand  Lake,  N.  Y.,  October  7,   1832, 

died  at  Poughkeepsie,  January  22,  1856. 

3.  Cordelia  Penniman,  born  at  Sand  Lake,  N.  Y.,  March  22,  1834, 

died  at  Ballston,  December  16,  1845. 

4.  Henry  Sylvanus,  born  at  Sand  Lake,  October  14,  1835,  died  at 

Albany,  December  27,  1837. 

5.  Harriet,    born    at    Albany,    September    7,    1837;    married,    at 

Poughkeepsie,  September  5,   1867,  John   F.  Winslow,  iron 
manufacturer,  of  Troy,  N.  Y. 

6.  Charlotte  Penniman,  born  at  Ballston,  August  23,  1839;   mar- 

ried Rev.  Francis  B.  Wheeler,  of  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 


TRIBE    OF    ELIPHALET.  89 

7.  James  Henry,  born  at  Ballston,  June  25,  1841,  died  September 

23;  1892. 

8.  Edward  Allen,  born  at  Ballston,  April  io,  1843. 

9.  George  Todd,  born  at  Ballston,  April  3,  1845. 

10.  Julia  Fitch,  bom  at  Ballston,  March  19,  1847,  died  at  Pough- 

keepsic,  July  19,  1871. 

11.  Martha  Herriman,  born  at   Ballston,  October  6,  1848,  died  at 

Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  January  29,  1884. 

Eliphalet  Wickes  (3),  born  June  15,  1820,  only  son  by  first  marriage 
of  Thomas  Scudder  Wickes,  married  (1)  Anna  Penniman,  of  Albany,  N.  V., 
August  16,  1842.  She  died  August  15,  1849,  aged  29  years.  He  married  (2) 
Ellen  Parmelee,  June  15,  1852.  He  died  February  21,  1899,  at  Englewood, 
N.  J.,  aged  79.     By  the  latter  union  he  had  issue,  as  follows : 

1.  Thomas  Parmelee,  born  at  Albany,  April  17,  1853. 

2.  Mary  Punnett,  bom  at  Albany,  February  28,  1856;    married 

David  U.  Cory,  of  Englewood,  N.  J.     He  died  July  13, 

1901. 

3.  Helen  Lansing,  born  at  Albany,  July  17,  1859,  died  at  Albany, 

February  17,  1866. 

4.  Allen  Lansing,  born  at  New  York,  May  7,  1868,  died  in  New 

York,  August  15,  1S68. 

Thomas  Parmelee,  son  of  Eliphalet  Wickes  (3),  married,  December  19, 
1877,  Harriet  Douw  Alley,  of  New  York.  She  died  May  27,  1899.  They 
have  had  issue : 

1.  Henry  Parmelee,  bom  in  New  York,  December  7,  1S78  ;  mar- 

ried Ethel  Catlin  Kinney,  November  21,  1896.     They  have 
one  child,  named  Bradford,  born  September  1,  1897. 

2.  Marie  Louise,  bom  in  New  York,  December  18,  188 1. 

Thomas  Parmelee,  son  of  Eliphalet  and  Ellen  Parmelee,  married,  second 
time,  Frances  Bliss  Gillespy,  of  Lansingburg,  N.  Y.,  May  30,  1901. 


9°  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

Mary    Punnett,   daughter  of   Eliphalet   Wickes  (3),  horn    at  Albany, 
February  28,  1S56,  fnarricd  David  U.  Cory,  of  Englewood.     Their  children  : 

1.  Robert  Haskell,  born  September  4,  18S1. 

2.  David  Uzal,  born  January  5,  18S3. 

3.  Eleanor,  born  November  2S,  1890. 


TRIBE    OF    ELirHALET.  OI 

Harriet,  the  fifth  child  of  Thomas  Scudder  Wickes,  married,  September 
5,  1867,  John  F.  Window,  of  Troy,  N.  Y.  He  died  at  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y., 
March  10,  1S92,  aged  Si.     Children: 

1.  Julia,  born  at  Poughkeepsie,  August  27,  iS63,  died  at  Pough- 

keepsie, February  16,  1S75. 

2.  Mary  Corning,  born  at  Poughkeepsie,  February  10,  1873;  mar" 

ried  Clarence  Alexander  Black,  of  Detroit,  Mich.,  Decem- 
ber 11,  1895.  One  child,  Ruth  Winslow,  born  at  Detroit, 
February  28,  1S97. 

3.  Thomas  Scudder,  born  at  Newburgh,  November  13,  18S3,  son 

of  Martha  (below),  adopted  April  iS,  1S84. 


Charlotte  Penniman,  sixth  child  of  Thomas  Scudder  Wickes,  married, 
October  25,  1876,  Rev.  Francis  B.Wheeler,  D.  D.,  of  Poughkeepsie.  Me  died 
at  Poughkeepsie,  December  27,  1895.     Have  had  issue: 

1.   Julia  Wickes,  born  at  Poughkeepsie,  March  27,  187S. 


James  Henry,  seventh  child  of  Thomas  Scudder  Wickes,  married,  Octo- 
ber 8,  1867,  Lilla  Cathell,  of  New  York.  He  died  September  23,  189?,  at 
Detroit,  Mich.     Children: 

1.  Henry  Cathell,  born  at  Bull's  Ferry,  October  10,  186S,  died  at 

Eng-lewood,  April  iS,  1869. 

2.  Walter  Herriman,  born  in  New  York,  March  10,  1871  ;  twice 

married — first  time,  Bertha  Conant,  of  Camden,  N.  Y.,  Sep- 
tember, 1897  ;  she  died  August  10,  1898;  second  time,  Laura 
Rebecca  Farr,  of  Boston,  July  4,  1899.  Son  of  1st  marriage 
Lawrence  W'ickes  Conant,  adopted  by  the  Conant  grand- 
parents at  Utica,  N.  Y. 

3.  Alfred    Donaldson,    born    in    New    York,   January    21,    1875. 

Married  Madame  Lisa  Delhaze,  September  20,  1900,  at 
Brussels,  Belgium. 


92  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

Edward  Allen,  eighth  child  of  Thomas  Scudder  Wickes,  married,  Octo- 
ber ii,  1S71,  Mary^VV.  Forsyth,  of  Newburgh,  N.  Y.     Children: 

1.  Mary  Forsyth,  born  in  New  York,  August  13,  1872. 

2.  Forsyth,  born  in  New  York,  October  26,  1876. 


George  Todd,  ninth  child  of  Thomas  Scudder  Wickes,  married  Fanny 
Webster,  of  Chicago,  March  31,  1869.     Children: 

1.  Edward  Dana,  born  at  Goodwill  Plantation,  S.  C,  March    11, 

1870;  married  Emma  Louise  Engebretson,  of  Rockford, 
111.,  June  4,  1900. 

2.  James  Henry,  born  at  Goodwill,  S.  C,  November  17,  1872, 

died  at  Goodwill,  May  12,  1873. 

3.  Annie  Webster,   born  at  Goodwill,  S.  C,  February  3,   1874; 

married  Rev.  William  Winn  Love  at  Helena,  Montana, 
April  28,  1897.  Their  children  :  Elizabeth,  born  February 
12,  1898;  Ethelbert,  born  April  8,  1899. 

4.  Lewis  Webster,  born  at  Low  Moor,  Va.,  August  11,  1879. 


TRIBE    OF    ELITHALET.  93*- V^ 

Martha  Herriman,  eleventh  child  of  Thomas  Scudder  Wickes,  married, 
October  7,  1879,  Jonas  Williams,  of  Newburgh,  N.  Y.,\vho  died  at  Newburgh, 
N.  Y,  April  2,  1SS6,  aged  63.     She  died  January  29,  1SS4,  aged  36.    Children  : 

1.  Olive  Penniman,  born  at  Newburgh,  November  15,  1SS0. 

2.  Cordelia,  born  at  Newburgh,  August  1,  1SS2. 

3.  Thomas    Scudder,    born   at    Newburgh,   November    13,   1883. 

The  latter  was  adopted  April  lS,  1S84,  by  John  F.Winslow 
and  Harriet  W.  Winslow,  of  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  by  the 
name  of  Thomas  Scudder  Winslow. 


TRIBE    OF    ELIPHALET.  95 

FRANCES    BLATCHFORD. 

Frances,  third  child  of  Eliphalet  (2),  born  May  12,  1805,  died  m  Chicago, 
January  18,  1875  ;  married.  May  18,  1S25,  Rev.  John  Blatchford,  D.  D.  (brother 
of  Dr.  Thomas  \V.  Blatchford,  who  married  her  aunt,  Harriet  Wickes),  son  of 
Rev.  Samuel  Blatchford,  D.  D.,  and  Alicia  Windeatt,  born  May  24,  1799,  died 
at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  April  8,  1855.     Their  children  are: 

1.  Eliphalet   Wickes,  born   at   Stillwater,  N.  Y.,  May  31,   1S26; 

married,  October  7,  185S,  Maiy  Emily,  daughter  of  John 
Chandler  Williams. 

2.  Richard  Milford,  born  at  Stillwater,  August  20,  1827,  died  at 

Bridgeport,  Conn.,  February  20,  1832. 

3.  Martha  Wickes,  born  at  Stillwater,  June  17,  1829,  died  at  Hart- 

ford, Conn.,  May   19,  1S62;    married,  November  4,   1S52, 
Morris  Collins. 

4.  John  Samuel,  bom  at  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  January  19,  1831. 

5.  Frances  Alicia,  born  at   Bridgeport,  Conn.,  September  6,  1832, 

died  at  West  Ely,  Mo.,  June  6,  1846. 

6.  Eliza  Allen,  born  at  Bridgeport,  September  22,  1S34,  died  at 

Chicago,  June  19,  1835. 

7.  Harriet  Punnett,  born  May  9,  1837,  at  Jacksonville,  111.;  died 

at  Chicago,  August  7,  1838. 

8.  Eliza  Harriet,  born   at  Chicago,  November  21,   1838,  died  at 

Chicago,  March  3,  1S39. 

9.  Alexander,  born    at  Wheeling,  Va.,  January   i,   1840,  died  at 

Ouincy,  111.,  October  9,   1847. 

10.  Mary  Ccbra,  born  at  Marion  College,  Mo.,  October  23,  1843, 

died  at  Ouincy,  111.,  December  27,  1849. 

11.  Alice  Windeatt,  born   December  20,  1S47,  at  Quincy,  111.,  died 

at  Chicago,  August  6,  1892. 

12.  Nathaniel  Hopkins,  born  at  Ouincy,  111.,  September  25  1849; 

married  Ella  Marion  Philbrick,  May  18,  1872;  died  April 
29,  1899. 

Eliphalet  Wickes  Blatchford,  eldest  son  of  Frances  Wickes  and 
Rev.  John  Blatchford,  born  May  31,  1826;  married,  October  7,  1858,  Man- 
Emily  Williams.     Children: 

1.  Paul,  born  July  18,  1859. 

2.  Amv,  born  May  20,  1862. 


96  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

3.  Frances  May,  born  May  25,  1865. 

4.  Edward  Williams,  bom  July  13,  1S6S. 

5.  Florence,  born  January  24,  1872,  died  June  4,  1874. 

6.  Charles  Hammond,  born  January  2,  1S74. 

7.  Eliphalet  Huntington,  born  October  9,  1876. 


Paul  Blatchford,  eldest  son  of  Eliphalet  Wickes  Blatchford,  born  July 
18,  1859;  married,  May  24,  1887,  Frances  Veazie  Lord.     Children: 

1.  John,  born  April  20,  18S8. 

2.  Dorothy  Lord,  born  December  10,  1SS9. 

3.  Barbara,  born  September  14,  1894. 

4.  Charles  Lord,  born  February  12.  1897. 


Amy  Blatchford,  eldest  daughter  of  Eliphalet  Wickes  Blatchford,  born 
May  20,  1862;  married,  November  7,  1889,  Rev.  Howard  Sweetser  Bliss, 
Children: 

1.  Mary  Williams,  born  November  16,  1890. 

2.  Margaret  Blatchford,  born  January  21,  1893. 

3.  Alice  Wood,  born  November  23,  1894. 

4.  Daniel,  born  March  15,  189S. 

5.  Howard  Huntington,  born  April  12,  1903,  in  Beirut,  Syria, 


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TRI1IE    OF    ELIPHALET. 


97 


Charles  Hammond  Blatchford,  sixth  child  of  Eliphalet  Wickes  Blatch- 
ford,  born  January  2,  1874;  married,  November  30,  1899,  Carita  Tyler  Clark. 
Children  : 

1.    Eliphalet  Lawrence  Blatchford,  born  May  3,  1902. 


98  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

Martha  Wickes  Blatchford,  third  child  of  Frances,  daughter  of 
Eliphalct  Wickes,  born  June  17,  1S29;  married,  November  4,  1852,  Morris 
Collins,  son  of  Amos  Morris  Collins,  of  Hartford,  Conn.  She  died  May  19, 
1S62.     Children: 

1.  John  Blatchford  Collins,  born  September  7,  1853. 

2.  Fiances  Wickes  Collins,  born  December  25,  1854,  died  January 

3.  lS59- 

3.  Mary  Lyman  Collins,  born  September  1,  1856,  died  December 

22,  1S58. 

4.  Amos  Morris  Collins,  born   November  25,  1857,  died  January 

26,  1902. 

5.  Martha  Blatchford  Collins,  born  July  12,  1859,  died  November 

6,  18S9;  married  John  F.  Downing. 

6.  Alice  Blatchford  Collins,  born  November  30,  i860. 

7.  Richard  Ely  Collins,  born  May  9,  1862,  died  September  5,  1862. 


John  Blatchford  Collins,  grandson  of  Rev.  John  Blatchford  and 
Frances  Wickes,  born  September  7,  1853  !  married,  November  1 1,  1S74,  Nellie 
Davis;  married  (2)  Nellie  Rebecca  Thompson,  December  15, 1897.    Children: 

1.  Morris  Collins,  born  October  26,  1875,  died  July  21,  1894. 

2.  Charles  Blatchford  Collins,  born  October  23,  1877. 


Amos  Morris  Collins,  grandson  of  Rev.  John  Blatchford  and  Frances 
Wickes,  born  November  25,  1857;  married,  February  5,  1879,  Charlotte 
Brown  Young.     He  died  January  26,  1902.     Children: 

1.  Martha  Wickes  Collins,  born  December  25,  1S80,  died  March 

11,  1S81. 

2.  Anna  Blatchford  Collins,  born  September  2,  1892. 

3.  Amos  Morris  Collins,  born  March  27,  1900. 


TRIDE    OF    ELIPHALET. 


99 


Martha  Blatchford  Collins,  fifth  child  of  Martha  Wickes  Blatchford, 
born  July  12,  1S59;  married  John  Franklin  Downing,  May  25,  iS3i.  She 
died  November  6,  1889.     Children: 

1.  Frank  Collins  Downing,  born  February  19,  1884. 

2.  Blatchford  Downing,  born  December  10,  1886. 


Nathaniel  Hopkins  Blatchford,  twelfth  child  of  Rev.  John  and 
Frances  Wickes  Blatchford,  born  September  25,  1849;  married  Ella  Marion 
Philbrick,  May  18,  1872.  She  died  April  29,  1899.  He  married  (2)  Helen 
Wheeler,  of  Chicago,  August  12,  1901.     Children  : 

1.  Agnes,  born  September  21,  1875,  died  April  23,  18S4. 

2.  Francis  Wickes,  born  September  20,  1875.      Married  Novem- 

ber 29,  1902,  to  Frances  Greene  Larned.      Had  daughter 
Ella  Marion,  born  November  5,  1903. 

3.  Luther  Morrill,  born  January  31,  1878,  died  June  24,  1888. 

4.  Nathaniel  Hopkins,  Jr.,  born  November  21,  1883. 


lOO  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

HARRIET    PUNNETT. 

Harriet,  fourth  child  of  Eliphalet  (2),  married  Henry  Punnett  (brother 
to  Thomas  S.  Wickes'  first  wife).  He  died  at  Porto  Rico,  West  Indies,  Sep- 
tember  16,  1848.     Children: 

1.  Henry  Walter,  born  at  Newtown,  July  20,  1830,  died  Septem- 

ber 20,  1S31. 

2.  Thomas    Wickes    Punnett  (Rev.),  born  at  Jamaica,  February 

7,  1  S3 2;  married  Mary  Esther  Gill,  of  Annapolis,  June  7, 
i860.  She  died  November  25,  iS;S;  married  2nd  time 
L.  Gertrude  Roosevelt,  February  7,  1889,  at  Skaneateles, 
N.  Y.     Residence,  Dobbs  Ferry,  N.  Y. 

3.  Elizabeth,  born  at  Jamaica,  N.  Y.,  September  14,  1833,  died  at 

Troy,  N.  Y.,  August  27,  1S34. 

4.  William    Henry,  born   at  Troy,  September  19,   1834,  died  at 

St.  Thomas,  January  14,  1848. 


Henry  Punnett  married  (2),  April  10,  1838,  Anna  Stewart,  of  Albany. 
She  died  January  9,  1842.     Children  : 

1.  Edward    Kirk   Punnett,  born   February   19,  1839;   he  married, 

lives  at  St  Paul. 

2.  Anna  Stewart,  born  January  6,  1842. 


TRIBE    OF    VAX    WYCK.  IOI 

TRIBE   OF    VAN  WYCK,  OF  THE    SIXTH   GENERATION. 

Van  Wyck,  son  of  Thomas  Wickes  (4),  married,  September  19,  1S11, 
Eliza,  daughter  of  Stephen  Herriman,  of  Jamaica  (then  deceased).  She 
was  born  December  16,  17S9,  and  died  at  Orange,  N.  J.,  May  24,  1S64.  He 
died  June  13,  1865. 

COMPANY    PRESENT    AT    THE    NUPTIALS. 

Rev.  Mr.  Eaitoute.and  wife, — minister. 

Thomas  Wickes  and  wife, — father  of  groom. 

Eliphalet  Wickes  and  wife, — brother  of  groom. 

Harriet  Wickes  (bridesmaid), — sister  of  groom. 

Elizabeth  Herriman, — mother  of  bride. 

William  S.  Herriman, — brother  of  bride. 

John  Y.  Cebra  and  wife, — sister  and  her  husband. 

James  Herriman, — cousin  of  bride. 

Magdalen  Herriman, — aunt  of  bride. 

Margaret  Herriman, — cousin  of  bride. 

Sarah  Smith, — great  aunt  of  bride. 

Mary  Smith, — great  aunt  of  bride. 

Benjamin-  Smith  (groomsman), — second  cousin  of  bride. 

Samuel  Skidmore  Smith— second  cousin  of  bride. 

Nehemiah  Denton  and  wife, — uncle  of  bride. 

Joseph  L.  Hewlett  and  wife, — sister  of  groom  and  husband. 

Mrs.  Breeze, — sister  of  John  Y.  Cebra. 

Children  : 

1.    Stephen  (M.  D.),  born  at  Jamaica,  March  17,  1813,  died  July  8, 

1889,  at  Orange,  N.  J. 
2     Thomas  (Rev.,  D.  D.),  born  at  Jamaica,  October  31,  1814,  died 
at  Orange,  N.  J.,  November  10,  1870. 

3.  Mary,  born  at  New  York,  January  28,  1S17;  married  Lucius  T. 

Rossiter. 

4.  William  W.,  born  at  Jamaica,  March   13,  1819,  died  February 

19,  1900,  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

5.  Henry  (Rev.),  born  at  Jamaica,  Feb.  1 1,  1S21,  died  at  Rochester, 

N.  Y.,  March  23,  1897. 

6.  John  (Rev.),  born  at  Jamaica,  February  14,  1823,  died  June  5, 

1 90 1,  at  Attica,  N.  Y. 


Note.— Harriet  (Blatchford)  died  April  12,  1875,  the  last  survivor  of  this  company. 


102  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

7.  Elizabeth   Herriman,  born  at  Jamaica,  April  15,  1S25,  died  at 

Troy,  August  13,  1S51. 

8.  Van  Wyck,  born  at  Jamaica,  June   7,  1827,  died   at  Jamaica, 

October  S,  1S28. 

9.  Harriet,  born   at  Jamaica,  October  22,  1S29,  died  at  Jamaica, 

September  30,  1S31. 
10.    Van  Wyck  (2),  born  at  Jamaica,  April  24,  1832,  died  August 
2S,  1895,  in  Brooklyn. 


STEPHEN  WICKES. 

Stephen  Wickes,  son  of  Van  Wyck,  married  (1)  Mary  Whitney,  daugh- 
ter of  Isaac  Heyer,  New  York,  February  24,  1S36.  She  died  in  Troy,  March 
9,  1838,  at  the  age  of  25  years.  He  married  (2),  April  1,  1841,  Lydia  Matilda, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Howard,  of  Brooklyn,  and  widow  of  William  H.  Van  Sin- 
dercn,  M.  D.,  of  the  same  place.  Lydia  Matilda  Wickes  died  August  9,  1896, 
in  Orange,  N.  J.,  aged  8^,  years.     (See  life  of  Stephen.) 

Children  by  first  marriage  : 

1.  Eliza  Polhemus,  born  in  Troy,  January  19,  1837. 

2.  Thomas,  born   in  Troy,  March  5,   183S,  died  in  Troy,  May  2, 

1838. 

Children  by  second  marriage  : 

3.  Mary  Heyer,  born  in  Troy,  February  22,  1842. 

4.  Matilda  Van  Sinderen,  born  in  Troy,  April  10,  1844. 

5.  Joseph   Howard,  born  in  Troy,  September  27,  1848,  died  July 

28,  1849. 


Matilda  Van  Sinderen,  daughter  of  Stephen  (M.  D.),  married,  June  25, 
1873,  Charles  K.  Ensign,  of  Orange,  N.  J.     Children: 

1.  May  Wickes,  born  May  19,  1874,  in  Orange,  N.  J. 

2.  Edith  Bridgman,  born  October  27,  1877,  in  Orange,  N.J.;  died 

January  3,  18S8. 

3.  Emilie  Kingsley,  born  May  2,  1884,  in  Orange,  N.  J. 

4.  Ethel  Howard,  born  April  7,  18S6,  in  Orange,  N.  J.;  died  July 

4,  1886. 


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TRIBE    OF    VAN    WYCK.  IO3 

May  Wickes  Ensjgx,  grand-daughter  of  Stephen  Wickes,  M.  D.,  born 
May  19,1874;  married,  September  26,  1S99,  Peirson  Sterling  Page,  M.  D., 
of  Springfield,  Mass.     Children  : 

1.  Charles  Ensign   Page,  born   at   Springfield,  Mass.,  March   27, 

1 90 1,  died  April  2,  1901. 

2.  Edith  Ensign   Page,  born  at  Springfield,  Mass.,  April  30,  1902. 


io4 


WICKES    GENEALOGY. 


THOMAS  WICKES. 

Thomas  D.  D., 'son  of  Van  Wyck,  married,  first,  Mary  Antoinette,  daugh- 
ter of  Alexander  Gunn,  D.  D.,  November  7,  1S38.  She  died  at  Marietta,  O., 
May  20,  184S.  He  married,  second,  Lydia  Fiances  Rockwell,  August  28, 
1849.  She  died  June  30,  1902,  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  was  buried  at  Basking 
Ridge,  N.  J.     [See  life  of  Thomas.]     Children: 

1.  Sarah  Eliza,  born  at  Marietta,  O.,  February  25,  1842. 

2.  Amelia 'Lambert,  born  at  Marietta,  O.,  September  24,  1844, 

died  at  Marietta,  September  18,  1851. 

3.  Harriet  Frances,  born  at  Marietta,  O.,  December  8,  1846;  mar- 

ried Charles  N.  Nye. 

4.  Thomas  Alexander,  born  at  Marietta,  O.,  May  13,  184S;  mar- 

ried,  July    27,    1 87 1,    Elizabeth    Darling  Woodbridge,    of 
Marietta,  O. 

5.  Mary  Flopkins,  born  at  Marietta,  O.,  February  21,  1852. 

6.  William  Rockwell,  born  at  Marietta,  O.,  July  2,  1853. 

7.  Caroline  Hubbell,  born  at  Marietta,  O.,  December  25,  1854. 

Thomas  Alexander  Wickes  (Rev.),  son  of  Rev.  Thomas  and  grandson 
of  Van  Wyck,  married  Elizabeth  Darling  Woodbridge,  of  Marietta,  O.,  July 
27,  1871.     Removed  to  Montana.     Children  : 

1.  William  Woodbridge,  born   at  Marietta,  O.,  December  5,  1872. 

2.  Elizabeth  Darling,  born  at  Hamilton,  Mo.,  December  21,  1877. 

3.  Mary  Ward,  born  July  15,  1881,  at  Wickes,  Montana,  married 

William  Warren  Taylor,  M.  D.,  July  27,  1903. 

William  Woodbridge  Wickes,  son  of  Thomas  A.  Wickes,  married,  July 
27,  1896,  Helen  C.  Stinson,  of  North  Carolina,  at  Boulder,  Montana.    Children : 

1.  Margaret  Stinson  Wickes,  born  January  15,  1899. 

2.  Elizabeth  Woodbridge  Wickes,  born  July  7,  190-0. 

3.  Thomas  Alexander  Wickes,  born  December  29,  1902. 

r 

Elizabeth  Darling  Wickes,  daughter  of  Thomas  A.  Wickes,  married 
Frank  M.  Hope,  July  27,  1898,  of  Boulder,  Montana.     Children: 

1.  Mary  Elizabeth  Hope,  born  October  9,  1900. 

2.  Alice  Wickes  Hope,  born  December  5,  1903. 


TRIBE    OF    VAN    WYCK.  IO5 

Harriet  Frances  Nye,  daughter  of  Rev.  Thomas  and  grand-daughter  of 
VanWyck,  married  at  Jamestown,  N.  Y.,  December  8.  1S69,  Charles  Nathaniel 
Nye,  who  was  born  at  Marietta,  O.,  May  20,  1843.  They  now  reside  at  Los 
Angeles,  Cal.     Children  : 

1.  William  Putnam  Nye,  born  at  Canton,  O.,  January  16,  1874. 

2.  Arthur  Wickes  Nye,  born  at  Canton,  O.,  January  28,  1882. 


William  Putnam  Nye,  son  of  Harriet  Frances  (Wickes)  Nye,  married 
at  Oberlin,  O.,  December  28,  1897,  Myra  B.  Sturtevant.  They  now  live  at 
Glendora,  Cal.     Children  : 

1.  Wilbur  Sturtevant  Nye,  born  at  Canton,  O.,  October  12,  1898. 

2.  Robert  Carroll  Nye,  born  October  4,  1901. 


William  Rockwell,  son  of  Rev.  Thomas  and  grandson  of  Van  Wyck 
Wickes,  married,  June  28,  18S2,  Mary  A.  Dean,  of  Milan,  O.  He  is  now 
Instructor  in  Mathematics  in  Chicago  Manual  Training  School  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago.     Children : 

1.    Dean  Rockwell  Wickes,  born  at  Granville,  O.,  September  10, 
1883. 


I°6  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

,   MARY  WICKES  ROSSITER. 

Mary,  daughter   of  Van  Wyck,   married,   August    29,   1843,  Lucius  T 
Rossiter.     He  died  August  24,  1879,  aged  69  years."  Children: 

1.  Edward  Van  Wyck,  born  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  July  13,  1844 

2.  Walter  King,  born  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  March  25,  1S46. 

3.  William  Wickes,  born  at  Troy,  N.Y.,  February '9,  1848,  died  in 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  April  ^o,  1897. 

4.  Mary  Wickes,  born   at  Troy,  April  29,  1S49,  died  February  1- 

1852. 

5.  Frank  Powers,  born  at  Brooklyn,  August  19,  1852. 

6.  Anna,  born  at  Brooklyn;  died  in  infancy,  January  7,  1856. 

7.  Elizabeth,  born  at  Brooklyn,  December  12,  1854. 

8.  Lucius  T.,  born  in  Brooklyn,  September  4,  1S56. 

9.  Arthur   Lawrence,   born   at  Brooklyn,  October  i8,  1857,  died 

August  11,  1858. 
10.    Clinton  L.,  born  at  Brooklyn,  February  13,  i860. 

Edward  Van  Wyck  Rossiter,  eldest  son  of  Mary,  daughter  of  Van 
Wyck  Wickes,  married  Estelle  Hewlett,  daughter  of  Joseph  L.  Hewlett  (tribe 
of  Hannah  Wickes),  June  16,  1869.     Children: 

1.  Edward  J^awrence,  born  at  Great  Neck,  August  14,  1S70. 

2.  Estelle  Hewlett,  born  at  Flushing,  October  6,  1872. 

3.  Arthur  Wickes,  born  at  Flushing,  October  8,  1874. 

4.  Frank  Herriman,  born  at  Flushing,  March  14,  187S. 

5.  Mary  Hewlett,  born  at  Flushing,  October  29,  1SS2. 

6.  Ernest  Tuttle,  born  at  Flushing,  January  26,  1884. 

Edward  Lawrence  Rossiter,  son  of  E.  V.  W.  Rossiter,  married  Ella 
Fowler,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  June  5,  1894.     Children: 

1.  Lawrence  Fowler  Rossiter,  born  March  23,  1895. 

2.  Dorothy  Rossiter,  born  May  5,  1900. 

Estelle  Hewlett  Rossiter,  daughter  of  E.  V.  W.  Rossiter,  married 
Charles  Edward  Titus,  in  Flushing,  No\rember  10,  1S98.     Children: 

1.  Arthur  Rossiter  Titus,  born  at  Flushing,  November  6,  1899. 

2.  Charles  Edward,  born  at  Flushing,  March  22,  1902. 


I03  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

Walter  King  Rossiter,  second  son  of  Mary,  married,  April   26,  ■ 
Emilie  K.  (born  July  6,   1850),  daughter  of  J.  C.  Mayo,  of  Beaufort,  S.  C 
Children: 

1.  Marie  Louise,  born  at  New  York,  February  16,  1S72. 

2.  Ethel  Mayo,  born  at  Orange,  N.  J.,  March  29,  1874;  married, 

November  5,  1902,  Peter  Duncan  MacNaughton,  M.  D.,  of 
Calumet,  Mich. 

3.  Helen  Wickes,  born  at  Beaufort,  S.  C,  March  14,  1876. 

4.  Emilie,  born  at   Brooklyn,  March   14,  1S79,  died  at  Brooklyn, 

June  1 1,  1879. 


William  Wickes  Rossiter,  third  son  of  Mary,  married  (i),  August  2, 
1870,  Emma,  daughter  of  Robert  Richmond,  of  Brooklyn,  who  died  April  30, 
1897.  He  married  (2)  Helen  Hendrick,  daughter  of  James  Hendrick,  of 
Albany,  N.  Y.     Children  : 

1.  Van  Wyck  Wickes,  born  at  Brooklyn,  May  12,  1S71. 

2.  Julie,  born  at  Brooklyn,  January  21,  1873. 

3.  W7illiam,  born  at  Brooklyn,  November  13,  1877. 


TRIBE    OF    VAN    WYCK.  IO9 

Van  Wvck  Wickes  Rossiter,  born  May  12,  i87i,son  of  William  W, 
Rossiter,  married,  Ociober  io,   1895,  Mabel  Fuller,  of  Livcrmore,  California. 

Children : 

1.  Richmond,  born  November  S,  1896. 

2.  Ruth  Mabel,  born  September  29,  1897. 

3.  Van  Wyck,  born  May  26,  1900. 

4.  Margaret,  born  April  22^1901. 


Julie  Rossiter,  daughter  of  William  W.  Rossiter,  born  January  21,  1S73, 
married  John  J.  Hinchman,  April  29,  1896.     Children: 

1.  William  Rossiter  Hinchman,  born  January  26,  1S97. 

2.  Emma  Richmond  Hinchman,  born  December  30,  1899. 


IIO  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

Elizabetii  Rossiter,  daughter  of  Mary  Wickcs,  married  (i),  June  30, 

1877,  Charles  I.   De   Baun,  of  Brooklyn.     She   married  (2)   Howard  Gibb, 

December  31,  1S97.     Children: 

1.  Bessie,  born  in  Brooklyn,  June  13,  1878. 

2.  Lucius  Rossiter,  born  in  Brooklyn,  December  25,  1879. 

3.  Irene,  born  in  Brooklyn,  August  12,  1SS1. 

4.  Edith,  born  in  Brooklyn,  April  26,  1883. 

5.  Howard  Gibb,  Jr.,  born  June  26,  1899. 


TRIBE    OF    VAN    WYCK.  Ill 

Clinton  Lawrence  Rossiter,  youngest  son  of  Mary,  married  Jessie 
Louise  Goodrich,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  April  3,  18S4,  daughter  of  Judge  William 
W.  Goodrich.     Children  : 

1.  Marjorie,  born  in  Brooklyn,  February  io,  1885. 

2.  Lille,  born  in  Brooklyn,  August  10,  1SS6. 

3.  William  Winton  Goodrich,  born  in  Brooklyn,  August  2,  1889. 

4.  Clinton  Lawrence,  born  in  Buffalo,  April  13,  1895. 


U2  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

WILLIAM   W.  WICKES. 

William  W.  Wickes,  fourth  child  of  Van  Wyck,  married,  June  6,  1850, 
Rebecca  Jane  Hutchinson,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  She  died  November  24,  1867. 
They  had  one  son,  who  died  in  a  few  hours.  In  October,  1859,  he  adopted  a 
child  18  months  of  age,  as  his  daughter,  naming  her  Annie  L.  Wickes.  She 
was  married  March  27,  1879,  to  Benjamin  F.  Stephens,  who  died  October 
16,  1903,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.     Children: 

1.  Carrie  Wickes  Stephens,  born  in  Brooklyn,  January  1,  1880. 

2.  William  Wickes  Stephens,  born  in  Brooklyn,  January  29,  1883. 

3.  Florence  Parsons  Stephens,  born  in  Flatbush,  L.  I.,  June  16, 

1885. 

4.  Benjamin   Fredenburgh,  bom  in   Flatbush,  L.  I.,  October  30, 

1886. 

5.  Everett  Irving,  born  in  Flatbush,  L.  I.,  February  26,  1892. 


TRIBE    OF    VAN    WYCK.  I  I  W/*-/ 

HENRY  WICKES. 

Henry  (Rev.),  fifth  child  of  Van  Wyck,  married,  May  8,  1856,  Elizabeth 
F.  Bardwell,  daughter  of  Rev.  Horatio  Bardwell,  D.  D.(  of  Oxford,  Mass.,  an 
early  missionary  to  India.     Children: 

1.  Robert  Bardwell,  born  at  Guilford,  Conn.,  August  3,  1857. 

2.  Alice  Herriman,  born  at  Deep  River,  Conn.,  August  1,  1859. 

3.  Laura  W.,  born  at  Deep  River,  Conn.,  October  28,  1861. 

4.  Henry  Van  Wyck,  born  at  Deep  River,  Conn.,  May  2,  1864. 


Robert  Bardwell  Wickes,  born  August  3,  1857  (son  of  Rev.  Henry 
Wickes),  married  Margaret  Perkins  Cogswell,  September  19,  1889  (born  at 
Rochester,  N.  Y.,  December  22,  1861,  daughter  of  William  F.  and  Martha 
Breck  Cogswell).     Children: 

1.  Francis  Cogswell,  born  July  7,  1890. 

2.  Philip  Bardwell,  born  March  23,  1893. 

3.  Elizabeth,  born  November  15,  1S94. 

4.  Hemy  Herriman,  born  May  22,  1898. 
All  born  at  Rochester,  N.  Y. 


TRIBE    OF    VAN    WYCK.  XI^ 

JOHN  WICKES. 

John  Wickes  (Rev.),  son  ofVanWyck,  married,  September  16,  1S62 
Amy  Moore,  of  Brighton,  N.  Y.     Children: 

*  1.    Amy,  born  at  Brighton,  N.  Y.,  March  29,  1864. 
2.    Van  Wyck,  born  at  Attica,  August  14,  1S67. 

Amy  Wickes,  born  March  29,  1864  (daughter  of  Rev.  John  Wickes) 
married,  May  16,  188S,  Charles  E.  Loomis,  of  Attica,  Wyoming  Co.,  N.  Y. 
son  of  Hon.  James  Harvey  Loomis.     Children: 

1.  Margaret  Loomis,  born  May  2,  1889,  died  May  14,  1889. 

2.  Charles  Wickes  Loomis,  born  May  15,  1890. 

3.  Van  Wyck  Wickes  Loomis,  born  December  16,  1891. 

4.  John  Harvey  Loomis,  born  October  14,  1894. 


VAN  WYCK  WICKES. 

Van  Wyck  Wickes,  youngest  child  of  Van  Wyck  (1),  married,  October 
3,  1 86 1,  Josephine  L.,  daughter  (by  a  second  marriage)  of  Joseph  L.  Hewlett, 
of  Great  Neck,  L.  I.  She  died  March  7,  1895.  He  died  August  28,  1895. 
Children  : 

1.  Albert  Ethelred,  born  in  New  York,  September  10,  1862. 

2.  Eliza  Herriman,  born  in  New  York,  October  3,  1867. 


Il6  W1CKES    GENEALOGY. 

TRIBE   OF    HARRIET,   OF    SIXTH    GENERATION. 
Harriet,  daughter  of  Thomas  Wickes  (4),  married  at  Jamaica,  February 
3,  1 81 9,  Thomas  W.  Blatchford,  M.  D.,  brother  of  Rev.  John  Blatchford,  D.  D. 
(see  tribe  of  Eliphalet).     They  had  issue,  viz. : 

1.  Thomas  Wickes,  born  at  Jamaica,  February  20,  1820,  died  at 

Troy,  August  23,  1S63. 

2.  Samuel  T.,  born  at  Jamaica,  March  4,  1822,  died  at  Fort  Hamil- 

ton, L.  I.,  August  28,  i8S6,  at  64  years. 

3.  John  T.,  born  at  Jamaica,  June  iS,  1823. 

4.  George  Edgcombe,  born  at  Jamaica,  January  26,  1825,  died  at 

Troy,  October  5,  1828. 

5.  Harriet,  born  at  Jamaica,  May  8,  1828,  died  at  Troy,  August 

18,  1828. 

6.  Harriet  (2),  born  at  Troy,  February  21,   1829,  died  at  Troy, 

N.  Y.,  August  28,  1896. 


Thomas  Wickes,  son  of  Harriet  and  Thomas  WTickes  Blatchford,  married 
November  9,  1847,  Jane  Bunce  Smith.  They  had  one  child,  Amy,  born  at 
Great  Barrington,  Mass.,  September  4,  1855. 

1.  Amy  Blatchford,  daughter  of  Thomas  Wickes  Blatchford,  married 
at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  June  4,  1883,  Samuel  Dwight  Wilcox, 
born  at  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  May  6,  1862.  Their  child  is  Thomas 
Blatchford,  born  at  New  Brighton,  Staten  Island,  N.  Y.,  May 
27,  18S5. 


Samuel  T.,  son  of  Harriet  (Wickes)  and  Thomas  W.  Blatchford,  married, 
December  27,  1848,  Agnes  Euphemia  Leadbeater,  of  New  York.  They  had 
issue,  viz. : 

1.  Thomas  Windeatt,  born  at  New  York,  September  3,  i85i,died 

at  Troy,  N.  Y.,  January  7,  1856. 

2.  Kate,  born  at  Federal  Store,  October  3,  1853,  died  at  Brook- 

lyn, N.  Y.,  July  29,  1857. 

3.  Thomas  Windeatt  (2),  born  at  New  York,  January  24,  1857. — 

Vid.  "  Blatchford  memorial." 

4.  Richard  Milford,  born  at  Fort  Hamilton,  N.Y.,  August  7,1859, 

married  at  Brooklyn, Natalie  Cary  Green, born  July  25, 1S64. 


TRIBE    OF    HARRIET.  I  I  7 

TRIBE   OF  .HANNAH,   OF    SIXTH    GENERATION. 

Hannah,  daughter  of  Thomas  (4),  was  married  at  her  brother  Eliphalet's 
house,  in  Jamaica,  L.  I.,  August  20,  1800,  to  Joseph  L.  Hewlett,  of  Great 
Neck,  L.  I.     They  had  issue,  three  children,  viz.: 

1.  Joseph  L.,  horn  at  Little  Neck,  January  4,  1809. 

2.  Harriet,  born  at  Great  Neck,  November  i,  1S14. 

3.  Thomas,  born  and  died  with  his  mother,  March  8,  1816. 


Joseph  Lawrence  Hewlett,  son  of  Hannah,  was  married  January  20, 
1836,  to  Mary  T.  Cornwell,  daughter  of  John  Cornwell,  of  Manhasset,  L.  I 
They  had  issue,  viz. : 

1.  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  at  Manhasset,  August  6,  1838,  died  at 

Great  Neck,  Februaiy  21,  1S40. 

2.  Mary  Cornwell,  born  at  Great  Neck,  November  25,  1840.  died 

at  Saratoga  Springs,  November  7,  1871. 

3.  Joseph  L.,  born  at  Great  Neck,  and  died  next  day,  January  18, 

1843. 

4.  Estelle,  born  at  Great  Neck,  March  30,  1845. 


Estelle,  daughter  of  Joseph  L.  Hewlett,  was  married  June  16,  1869,  to 
Edward  V.  W.  Rossiter.     (See  tribe  of  Van  Wyck.) 


Harriet,  daughter  of  Joseph  L.  and  Hannah  Hewlett,  married,  May  23, 
1838,  William  Mitchell  Smith,  of  Great  Neck.  He  died  July  2  or  3,  18S4, 
aged  68.     They  had  issue,  viz. : 

1.  Harriet  Wickes,  born  at  Great  Neck,  February  7,  1839. 

2.  William  Mitchell,  born  at  Great  Neck,  March  iS,  1842,  died  at 

Great  Neck,  April  10,  1863. 

3.  Susan,  born  at  Great  Neck,  August  29,  1853. 


*l8  WICKES    GENEALOGV. 

FAMILY  OF   HERRIMAN. 

John  Harriman  is  said  to  have  landed  at  Plymouth  in  1620.  He  was 
at  New  Haven  in  1646.  He  was  put  in  charge  of  the  town  ordinary,  of  which 
he  was  keeper  for  many  years.  He  was  also  a  respected  church  member.  He 
had  two  children,  John,  baptized  January  16,  1647,  and  Elizabeth,  baptized 
July  23,  164S.  The  latter  was  married,  April  n,  1665,  to  Capt.  John  Miles 
who  was  an  owner  of  land  in  Elizabethtown,  N.  J.,  about  1670,  perhaps 
earlier.  She  died  December  3,  1674  ;  the  husband,  November  7,  1704.  Their 
eldest  son  was  John  Miles,  who  was  admitted  an  "  associate "  in  Elizabeth- 
town,  1695.  (Hatfield's  History  E.  Town.)  The  son,  Rev.  John  Harriman, 
was  trained  under  the  care  of  the  Rev.  John  Davenport,  who  persuaded  his 
father  to  give  him  a  liberal  education.  His  preliminary  studies  were  pursued  at 
the  grammar  school  of  Jeremiah  Peck,  at  New  Haven.  At  the  age  of  fifteen 
he  entered  college  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  where  he  graduated  in  1667.  He 
afterwards  taught  the  grammar  school  at  New  Haven  several  years,  preaching 
at  the  same  time  occasionally  in  that  same  town,  at  East  Haven  and  a^t 
W  alii  no-ford. 

In  1674  he  went  to  Southampton,  Long  Island.  He  was  the  third  min- 
ister of  that  place,  being  put  in  possession  of  the  parsonage  April  12,  1675, 
"upon  termes  the  town  and  he  hath  agreed  on."  He  seems  to  have  been  engaged 
soon  after  (in  1676)  as  a  stated  supply  in  New  Haven,  where  he  was  till  1682. 
After  his  return  to  Connecticut,  he  addressed  a  letter  to  Mr.  Thomas  Cooper, 
of  Southampton,  in  which  he  dunned  the  congregation  for  some  supposed 
arrearages  of  salary.  The  letter  was  considered  in  town  meeting,  and  the 
following  answer  was  voted  : 

"Mr.  Herriman  {sic)  was  so  long  absent  and  the  town  paid  so  much  for 
him,  which  he  promised  to  repay;  also  considering  the  manifold  inconveniences 
that  he  exposed  the  town  unto,  Mr.  Herriman  in  equity  ought  to  make  the 
town  compensation,  than  that  they  should  pay  him  one  penny  for  his  last  half 
year's  pains  among  us."  His  being  "  long  absent"  may  have  been  occasioned 
by  his  engagement  at  New  Haven.     (Prime's  History  of  L.  I.) 

In  October,  1684,  he  was  engaged  in  running  the  boundary  line  between 
New  York  and  Connecticut,  having  been  appointed  surveyor  by  the  General 
Court  at  Hartford,  May  8,  1684.  He  was  employed  as  surveyor  for  a  year  or 
more,  when  he  migrated  to  New  Jersey,  having  many  old  friends  in  Elizabeth 
who  had  gone  from  Connecticut  and  Long  Island. 

He  was  installed  pastor  of  the  church  there  about  September,  1687.  Fie 
married,  about   1673,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Richard  Bryan,  of  Milford,  Conn. 


FAMILY    OF    HERRIMAN.  II9 

Her  sister  was  married  to  Joseph  Treat,  of  Milford,  probably  a  brother  of 
Robert  Treat,  a  primitive  settler  of  Newark,  N.  J.,  in  1666.  When  he  came 
to  New  Jersey,  in  his  40th  yenr,  he  had  six  children,  viz.:  John,  an  eminent 
land  surveyor;  Samuel,  Ann,  Mary,  Leonard  and  Richard.  Three  sons  weie 
born  to  him  in  New  Jersey. 

In  1692  he  applied  to  the  proprietors  of  East  Jersey  for  a  grant  of  land, 
and  received  one  hundred  acres  "  in  the  plains,"  which  he  cleared  and  culti- 
vated. He  charges  in  his  ledger,  still  preserved,  "  My  lot  in  the  plaines,"  June 
6,  1  701,  with  cost  of  "beer,  cake  and  rum  to  the  volunteers  at  the  clearino- 
said  Lot,  £1  ys.  yd"  He  was  a  man  of  large  business.  In  addition  to  his 
preaching  and  pastoral  visitations,  he  worked  his  acres,  carried  on  a  flouring 
mill  and  cider  press,  was  agent  for  the  supply  of  glass,  a  land  surveyor,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Provincial  Legislature  for  four  years,  dealt  in  real  estate  and  kept  a 
boarding  school. 

He  dealt  in  slaves  also,  at  least  for  his  own  use.  Item  from  his  books: 
"We  bought  the  negro,  Toncy,  August  14,  1697,  of  Charles  Tooker,  Jr.,  for 
48/."  Again,  "of  Mr.  James  Emot,  an  Indian  girle,  named  Hagar,  for 
^19,  10."  It  was  the  custom  to  take  a  contribution  every  Sunday.  He 
kept  an  account  of  the  proceeds.  Here  is  one  entry:  "  Eeb.  19 — Cash,  igs. 
ioj,{d.  Wampum  \\d.  Total,  £\,  oo.<\  g}{d."  The  Clergy  at  this  date  did 
not  receive  their  full  support  from  the  parishes.  Smith,  in  his  History  of  New 
Jersey,  says :  "  We  know  none  that  have  a  settled  preacher  that  follows  no 
other  employment,  save  one  town,  Newark." 

Mr.  Harriman  had  the  confidence  and  affection  of  his  people.  He  died 
August  20,  1705,  in  his  58th  year.  The  following  appears  in  the  "Boston 
News  Letter  "  of  September  10,  1  705  : 

"  Elizabethtown,  New  Jersey,  August  30.  On  Monday  the  20th  currant, 
died  here  in  the  afternoon,  the  Reverend  Mr.  John  Harriman,  Pastor  of  the 
Church  in  this  place,  aged  about  60  years,  who  the  same  day  at  a  church 
meeting  told  his  people  that  the  time  of  his  departure  drew  near, and  exhorted 
them  to  peace  and  unity,  one  with  another,  and  to  stand  fast  in  the  Covenant 
that  they  had  engaged  themselves  to."  (Hatfield's  History  of  Elizabeth- 
town;  Prime's  History  of  Long  Island  ;   Smith's  History  of  New  Jersey.) 


120  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

HERRI  MAX    GENEALOGY, 
i.   John  Harriman,  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  1646. 

2.  Rev.  John  Harriman,  died  in  1 705,  in  EHzabethtown,  N.J.    Children: 

John,  born  1674,  died  1730;  land  surveyor. 
Richard,  born  1685. 

3.  Stephen  (i),  born  about  16S9;  was  in  EHzabethtown  as  late  as  1729. 

Joseph. 

Other  children : 

4.  Stephen  (2),  bom  1 730,  son  of  the  first  Stephen  ;  migrated  to  Jamaica, 

Long  Island  ;  married  Martha  Denton  ;  changed  his  name  to  Herri- 
man;  died  at  Jamaica,  1770.     Children: 

Stephen  (3),  born  May  6,  1757,  died  May  26,  1792,  aged  35;  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Smith,  who  was  born  February  3,  1760,  and  died 
December  29,  1847.     Marriage  license  dated  July  n,  1783. 
James,    born    September    15,    1761;   married   Magdalene   (see    7. 

below). 
Martha,  born  July  23,  1766;  married  Eliphalet  Wickes  (see  family 
of  Eliphalet  Wickes);  died  May  7,  1821. 

5.  Stephen  (3),  above,  had  children  : 

William  S.,  born  October  24,  1791  (below),  died  April  6,  1867. 
Mary,  born  February  27,  1  7S.6;  married  John  Yates  Cebra,  April  8 

1809 ;  no  children. 
Eliza,  born    December    16,    1789;    married   Van   Wyck   Wickes 

September  19,  1  Si  1  (see  family  of  Van  Wyck  Wickes),  died 

May  24,  1864. 

6.  William    S.,  born   October  24,   1791    (above);    married  Maria  Bell 

Frecke,  December  13,  1820.     She  was  born  July  3,  1795.     Children: 

John  F.,  born  February  1,  1822;  married  Margaret  M.  Suydam, 
February,  1846;  died  November  15,  1853. 

Elizabeth,  born  July  15,  1823,  died  February  n,  1824. 

Stephen  H.,  born  March  11,  1825  ;  married  Helen  V.  B.  Garret- 
sen.  He  died  November  17,  1892.  (His  son,  William  S., 
died  in  Morristown,  N.  J.,  in  1896,  aged  37.  Another  son 
died  in  infancy,  and  daughters,  Helen,  unmarried,  and  Maria 
Bell,  who  married  Horace  Clark  Hagen.     No  children.) 

William  Henry,  born  February  7,  1829;  married  Elizabeth  Wyck- 
off.     Lives  in  Italy.     No  children. 


ELIZABETH  (SMITH)  HERRIMAN,  born  1760. 


FAMILY    OF    HERRIMAN  121 

Anna  Maria,  born  June  24,  1S31,  died  December  5,  1832. 

Caroline,  born  ;  married   Henry  D.  Polhemus, 

who  was  born  182S,  and  died  February  17,  1S95.  No  chil- 
dren. 

7.  James  (son  of  Stephen,  above),  born  1761,  died  October  6,  1S01 ;  mar- 
ried Magdalene ,  born  November  27,  1769.     Died  Nov.  19,  1841. 

Children : 

James,  who  lived  and  died  in  Jamaica.     Had  issue. 

John,  born  July  30,  1797,  died  July  25,  1835,  lived  and  died  in 
New  York.     Had  issue. 

Stephen,  married,  and  lived  in  New  Orleans.     Had  issue. 

Margaret,  born  March  6,  1796,  unmarried,  died  1851. 

Martha,  born  October  29,  1789,  died  October  15,  1853,  married 

Benjamin  Wright.     Had  issue. 


Elizabeth  Smith,  who  married  Stephen  Herriman,  Jr.,  was  the  daughter 
of  Ephraim  and  Mary  Smith,  of  Flushing,  Long  Island.  Mary  Smith  was  the 
daughter  of  Samuel  Skidmore  (died  1  782),  and  Mary  Gray,  and  after  the  death 
of  her  first  husband,  Ephraim  Smith,  she  married  Thomas  Denton,  a  brother 
of  the  Martha  Denton  who  married  Stephen  Herriman. 

Elizabeth  Smith  Herriman  had  a  brother  Isaac  who  lived  and  died  at 
Wappinger's  Creek,  Dutchess  County,  and  was  the  father  of  Ephraim  Smith. 
She  had  a  sister,  Mary,  who  married  a  Smith  and  had  sons,  Samuel  Skidmore 
Smith  and  Benjamin  Smith.  She  also  had  a  sister  Sally,  who  died  unmarried 
February  18,  1857,  aged  95.  The  mother  of  Elizabeth  Smith  Herriman  was 
a  sister  of  Phebe  Skidmore,  third  wife  of  Hendrick  Suydam,  of  Hallet's  Cove. 

The  Will  of  Ephraim  Smith,  dated  February  12,  1763,  proved  April  19, 
1763,  leaves  to  his  wife,  Mary,  and  daughters,  Mary,  Elizabeth  and  Sarah, 
each  $100,  and  all  the  rest  to  his  son,  Isaac.  Makes  his  honored  father-in  law, 
Samuel  Skidmore,  and  his  friend  and  nephew,  Samuel  Denton,  of  Jamaica, 
executors. 

The  children  of  Thomas  Denton  and  Mary  Smith  were  : 

1.  Thomas  Denton,  born  1772,  died  1796.     No  issue. 

2.  Nehemiah  Denton,  born  1773,  died  1844  (executor  of  Will  of 

Stephen  Herriman). 

3.  Samuel  Denton,  born  1775,  died  1799.     No  issue. 

4.  Martha  (called  Patty),  born  ;  married  Samuel  Wilkins. 


122  WICKES    GENEALOGY. 

•  FAMILY  OF   DENTON. 

Rev.  Richard  Denton,  pastor  of  the  church  at  Wethersfield,  Conn.,  in 

1640,  was  bred  at  the  University  of  Cambridge,  where  he  had  his  degree  of 
A.  13.  at  Catherine  Hall  in  1S23.  He  was  from  Yorkshire,  born  1586,  and 
probably  came  to  this  country  in  consequence  of  the  restrictions  placed  upon 
the  independents  and  non-conformants,  with  Governor  Winthrop.  He 
came  to  Watertown,  Mass.,  in  1634.  He  removed  to  Stamford,  Conn.,  in 
1644,  and  then  to  Hempstead,  Long  Island,  where  he  remained  until  he 
returned  to  England  in  1659.  He  was  the  first  pastor  of  the  church  in  Hemp- 
stead. We  learn  from  Mather  that  he  had  been  a  minister  at  Halifax,  in 
Yorkshire,  and  from  other  sources  that  he  had  in  1631  the  curacy  of  Coley 
chapel  in  Halifax.  He  was]  of  good  family  but  a  little  man,  blind  in  one  eye. 
He  wrote  a  system  of  divinity. 

The  History  of  Queen's  County  says:  "  From  Mr.  Denton's  known  views 
the  friends  of  Presbyterianism  reach  the  conclusion  that  the  church  was 
Presbyterian, and  from  the  fact  that  the  first  church  (at  Hempstead)  was  called 
'Christ's  First  Church,'  it  is  supposed  by  many  that  this  was  the  earliest 
Presbyterian  church  in  America." 

"The  first  meeting  house  was  erected  in  1648.  It  stood  near  the  pond 
in  the  northwest  part  of  the  village,  and  was  surrounded  by,  or  at  least  con- 
nected with,  a  fort  or  stockade."  "  It  may  be  proper  to  observe  that  at  this 
time  the  most  intimate  connection  existed  between  church  and  state  in  all 
Christian  countries.  In  towns  which,  like  Hempstead,  were  Presbyterian  (that 
is,  which  chose  their  own  officers)  this  particularly  was  the  case.  The  same 
persons  constituted  "the  church"  and  "the  town"  and  elected  the  two  boards 
of  magistrates  and  elders,  who  were  often  the  same  individuals." 

Rev.  Richard  Denton  died  in  England  in  1662,  aged  76  years  (see  Mather's 
Magnalia).  tie  left  four  sons,  Richard,  Samuel,  Nathaniel  and  Daniel.  Richard 
was  among  the  settlers  of  Hempstead,  Long  Island,  and  Nathaniel  in  1660 
was  living  in  Jamaica  where  he  and  his  squadron  were  authorized  to  mow  at 
the  Haw-trees. 

The  lines  of  descent  from  Nathaniel  Denton  to  Martha  Herriman  who 
married  EHphalet  Wickes  in  1790;  and  from  the  same  source  to  Eliza  Herri- 
man,  who  in  181 1  married  Van  Wyck  Wickes,  are  given  below,  as  is  also  the 
synopsis  of  a  female  line  through  which  Mrs.  Eliphalet  Wickes  Blatchford 
traces  her  descent  from  Rev.  Richard  Denton  through  his  son  Daniel. 

In  records  of  Hempstead  "A,"  page  1 2,  we  read  :  "  1657 — A  quarter's  rate 
is  made  for  Mr.  Richard  Denton  for  his  wages  for  the  year,  the  sum  being 


FAMILY    OF    DENTON.  I  23 

,£17-10,  the  levy  being  $%d.  the  acre.  The  gatherers  are  William  Washburn 
and  Thomas  Demont." 

"  165S — Another  quarter's  rate  is  made  by  the  Townsmen  for  the  sum  of 
,£17-10  for  the  payment  of  Mr.  Denton's  last  quarter,  to  be  paid  in  wheat  at 
$s.  per  bushel  or  oats  at  2s.  6d.  The  sum  levied  upon  this  rate  at  3*^/.  per 
acre  of  meadow,  amounts  to  £ig~i.n 

And  in  Hist.  Documents,  Vol.  Ill,  page  10  ,  we  read:  "  1657,  Aug.  5. 
At  Hempstead,  say  the  Dutch  ministers,  there  are  some  Independents,  also  many 
of  the  Dutch  persuasion  and  Presbyterians.  They  have  a  Presbyterian  preacher, 
Richard  Denton,  an  honest,  pious  and  learned  man,  who  has  in  all  things  con- 
formed to  our  church.  The  Independents  listen  attentively  to  his  preaching, 
but  when  he  begins  to  baptize  the  children  of  parents  who  are  not  members 
of  the  church,  they  sometimes  burst  out  of  the  church." 

SECOND     GENERATION. 

Rev.  Richard  Denton's  son  was  Nathaniel,  who  married  Sarah  

and  died  before  1695. 

THIRD    GENERATION. 

Nathaniel's  son,  Nathaniel  Denton,  Jr.,  married  Elizabeth  Ashman, 
daughter  of  Robert  and  Catherine  Ashman,  of  Jamaica,  Long  Island,  and 
died  in  1719.  Nathaniel's  Will,  dated  March  16,  1719,  was  probated  March, 
29,  1  719. 

FOURTH    GENERATION. 

His  son,  James  Denton,  married  Martha ,  and  died  in  1757. 

James's  Will,  dated  March  14,  1757,  was  proved  July  21,  1757. 

FIFTH    GENERATION. 

James's  daughter,  Martha,  born  May  5,  1731,  married  Stephen  Herriman, 
May  i,  1756,  who  died  July  3,  1770,  aged  41  years.  Martha  married  (second) 
John  Smith,  and  died  July  7,  1788,  aged  57  years. 

The  first  printed  description  in  the  English  language  of  the  country  now 
forming  New  Jersey  and  New  York,  is  a  book  written  by  Daniel  Denton,  a 
son  of  the  first  pastor  of  Hempstead,  in  1670.  It  is  called  "A  Brief  Descrip- 
tion of  New  York,"  and  was  printed  for  John  Hancock,  London.  It  was 
reprinted  in  1845  and  again  in  1902.  Both  Daniel  and  Nathaniel  were 
patentees  of  the  Town  of  Jamaica,  Long  Island,  in  1656. 


I24 


WICKES    GENEALOGY. 


DENTON    GENEALOGY 


Rev.  Richard  Denton. 
Nathaniel  Denton, 
Nathaniel  Denton,  Jr., 
James  Denton, 
Martha  Denton, 
Martha  Herriman, 
Frances  Wickes, 
Eliphalet  Wickes  Blatchford, 
Paul  Blatchford, 


MARRIED. 


May  i,  1756, 
Nov.  28,  1790, 
May  18,  1825, 
Oct.  7,  1S5S, 
May  24, 18S7, 


Sarah . 

Elizabeth  Ashman. 

Martha  . 

Stephen  Herriman. 
Eliphalet  Wickes. 
John  Blatchford. 
Mary  Emily  Williams. 
Frances  Veazie  Lord. 


Rev.  Richard  Denton. 
Daniel  Denton. 
Abigail  Denton, 
Abigail  Stebbins, 

Jonathan  Ashley, 
Dorothy  Ashley, 
William  Williams, 
John  Chandler  Williams, 
Eliphalet  W.  Blatchford, 


SECOND    LINE. 


Oct.  9,  1682, 
Feb.  1,  1699, 

1736, 

Dec.  2i,  1763, 
March  6,  1S02, 
Oct.  26,  1831, 
Oct.  7,  1858, 


■ 


Benjamin  Stebbins, 
Jonathan  Ashley. 
Dorothy  Williams. 
William  Williams. 
Lucy  Fitch. 
Mary  Martin  Moore. 
Mary  Emily  Williams 


FAMILY  OF  VAN  WYCK. 

Cornelius  Barentse  Van  Wyck  emigrated  from  Holland  in  1660,  ana 
settled  in  Flatbush,  L.  I.,  where  he  married  Anna,  daughter  of  Rev.  Johannis 
Theodorus  Polhemus.  By  this  union  he  had  two  sons  and  five  daughters,  all 
born  in  FJatbush.  The  sons,  Theodorus  and  Johannis,  removed  to  Queens 
County. 

Theodorus,  who  settled  at  Great  Neck,  married  Margretia  Brinkerhoof, 
daughter  of  Abraham  Brinkerhoof,  of  Flatbush.  They  had  issue,  Cornelius, 
Theodorus,  Abraham,  Barent,  Susannah  and  Altie.  The  mortal  remains  of  the 
father  and  mother  lie  in  the  Thorne  burial-place  at  Great  Neck. 


FAMILY    OF    VAN    WYCK  12e 

Barent,  born    1703,  the  youngest   son  of  Theodorus,  married    Hannah, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Carman.     He  settled  in  1 724  at  East  Woods,  now  Wood- 
bury, Long  Island,  and  owned  much  land.     Children: 
(Capt.)  Thomas  married  Rachel  Eldert. 
Theodorus  married  Martha  Robbins. 
Samuel  married  Hannah  Hewlett. 
(Capt.)  Abraham  married  Eliz.  Wright 
Mary  married  John  Polhemus,  1762.  ^ 

Sarah  married  Simon  Cortelyou.      , 

Abigail  married  Thomas  W7ickes. 
Johannes,  second  son  of  Cornelius  Barentse,  settled  in  Flushing,  at  the 
head  of  Little  Neck  Bay,  now  Douglaston. 

Samuel,  brother  of  Abigail  Wickes,  had  Samuel  H.,  who  married  Mary 
Thorne,  and  Abraham,  who  married  Zeruah  Van  Wyck,  his  cousin,  a  daughter 
of  Capt.  Abraham  Van  Wyck. 

Abraham  and  Zeruah  had  Mary,  Samuel,  Abraham  H.,  Elizabeth  (who 
married  Joseph  L.  Hewlett,  second  wife),  Joshua  H.  (married  Sarah  M.  Hew- 
lett), William  and  Sarah.     The  latter  died  young. 


Note. — Barentse  was  undoubtedly  the  surname  which  the  first  ancestor  had  in  Holland. 
Van  Wyck  was  assumed,  according  to  one  of  the  customs  of  the  Dutch,  to  mark  their  origin 
from  the  Town  of  Wyke.  It  has  thus  become  the  patronymic.  "Frans  Barents"  is  noted 
as  a  patentee  of  Flatbush,  1667.  No  Van  Wyck  is  named.  Barentsen,  Barentse,  Barents, 
Barentz,  are  all  expressive  of  "  Son  of  Barent,"  thus:  Cornelius,  son  of  Barent.  This  was  the 
mode  of  naming  children  and  families  in  Holland,  and  in  America,  in  the  earlier  Colonial 
History  of  the  Dutch  families.  It  is  therefore  impossible  to  trace,  without  an  authentic 
genealogical  record,  the  families  of  our  early  Dutch  settlers  back  of  the  early  years  of  the 
eighteenth  century. 

They  took  surnames  also  from  their  trades  and  places  of  abode.  The  Jansens  (sons  of 
John),  who  early  migrated  from  Kings  County,  Long  Island,  to  Staten  Island,  became  Van 
Zants  (from  the  sands)  and  Vandenburgs  (from  the  hills),  according  to  their  residence. 
These  patronymics  abide  to  this  day. 


INDEX 


A  number  in  parentheses  following  a  page  number,  indicates  the  number  of  times  a  name  appears  on  the  sime  page. 
A  number  in  parentheses  following  the  name  of  a  person,  differentiates  several  persons  of  the  same  name  in  one 
family.  • 

Abbreviations:  6.  born;  m.  married;  d.  died. 

Ackerly,  Samuel,  m.  175 1 36 

Ackerly,  Samuel,  nu  1760. 36 

Adams,  John,  Carpenter 22 

Adriance,  Albert,  of  Flushing,  Estate  of, 

1806 3° 

Albany  (N.  Y.)   . .  .81,  88(2),  89,  100,  108 

Aider.  (N.  Y.)  75 

Allen,  Prof.,  of  Marietta  College 70 

Allen,  Dr.  Aldis  45-  81,  88 

Allen,  Eliza  M 45 

Allen,  Eliza  Martha  88 

Allen,  Eliza  Martha  Wickes 81 

Allen,  Margaret 32 

Allen,  Margaret  Wiekes 86 

Allen,  Samuel  32 

Allen,  Dr.  Samuel 36,  86 

Alley,  Harriet  Douw 89 

Allyn,  William   18 

America,  Earliest  Presbyterian   Church 


in 


Emigrants  to 


122 
11 


American  Board  of  Commfssions  of  For- 
eign Missions   5^.  °7 

Ancient  documents 23 

Anderson,  Col 77 

Andover  Theol.  Sem 75-  7& 

Andrews,  Rev 71 

Andros,  Gov.  of  Connecticut 85 

'Annapolis    IO° 

Anti- Jackson 59 

Apocalypse,   Exposition   of  the,   by  Dr. 
Thomas  Wickes   69 


Asharoken  bounds 19,  20 

Asharoken  Montinwicok,  Sachem. .  .ig,  20 

Ashley,  Dorothy 124 

Ashley,  Jonathan,  m.  1699 124 

Ashley,  Jonathan,  m.  1736 124 

Ashman,  Catherine   123 

Ashman,  Elizabeth    123,  124 

Ashman,  Robert  123 

Attica  (N.  Y.)  IOI,  115 

Presb.  Church 79 

Babylon  (N.  Y.)   51 

Ballston  (N.  Y.)   64,  81,  88,  89 

Banks,  G.  B 34 

Bapet,  Joseph   31 

Bardwell,  Elizabeth  F 113 

Bardwell,  Rev.  Horatio,  D.  D 75.  iJ3 

Barents.    See  also  Barentse,  Barentsen, 

Barentz  ( son  of  Barent) 125 

Barents,  Frans   125 

Barentse   I25 

Barentsen   I25 

Barentz I25 

Barnstable, (  Mass.)   12 

Barrett's  History  of  Bristol,  Eng 15 

Basking  Ridge  (N.  J.)  104 

Bath    (Md.)    15 

Battel  Abbev,  Roll  of  10 

Beaufort   (S.  C.)    108 

Beekman,  Miss 60 

Beirut  (Syria)    96 

Beman,    Dr 6S 

Benjamin,  a  slave    3° 


Apple-tree,  Legend  of  the 62,  63     Bible,  Inscription  in  ^0-63 

„  Arthur,  Elizabeth 3^     Biggs,  Timothy    3^ 


II 


INDEX 


Black,  Clarence  Alexander 91 

Black,   Mary  Corning    91 

Black,  Ruth  Winslow  91 

Blatchford,  Dr Co 

Blatchford,  Agnes   99 

Blatchford,     Agnes     Euphemia     Lead- 
beater   116 

Blatchford.  Alexander   82,  95 

Blatchford,  Alice  Windeatt   95 

Blatchford,  Amy,  b.  1S55 116 

Blatchford,  Amy,  b.  1862 95 

Blatchford.  Aunt  Harriet 60 

Blatchford,   Barbara    96 

Blatchford,  Carita  Tyler  Clark 97 

Blatchford,  Charles  Hammond 96,  97 

Blatchford,  Charles  Lord  .  . .  .  '. 96 

Blatchford,  Dorothy  Lord 96 

Blatchford,  Edward  Williams   96 

Blatchford,  Eliphalet  Huntington 96 

Blatchford,  Eliphalet  Lawrence 97 

Blatchford,  Eliphalet  Wickes.45,  82,  95  (2) 

Children  of   95 

Family   Bible  with    family  record 

1843    •••" 80-83 

Lot  in  Oakwood  Cemetery,  Troy, 

N.  Y 45 

Portrait  of 96 

Blatchford,  Mrs.  Eliphalet  Wickes.    See 
.  .also    Blatchford,    Mary    Emily    Will- 
iams     1 22 

Blatchford,  Eliza  Allen 82,  95 

Blatchford,  Eliza  Harriet 82,  95 

Blatchford.  Ella  Marion 99 

Blatchford.  Ella  Marion  Philbrick.  .  .95,  99 

Blatchford,  Florence   96 

Blatchford,  Mrs.   Frances 82,  95 

Blatchford,   Frances  Alicia 82,  95 

Blatchford,  Frances  Greene  Earned....   99 

Blatchford,  Frances  May   96 

Blatchford,  Frances  Veazie  Lord,  Chil- 
dren of 96 

Blatchford,  Frances  Wickes 81,  88 

Blatchford,    Frances    Wickes,  Children 

of 82,  95 

Blatchford,  Francis  Wickes  99 

Blatchford,  George  Edgcombe  ....83,  116 

Blatchford,  Harriet   116 

Blatchford,  Harriet,  d.   1875 101 

Blatchford,  Harriet  (2)    116 

Blatchford,  Harriet  Punnett  82,  95 


Blatchford,  Harriet  Wickes   95,  nrl 

Blatchford,  Harriet  Wickes,  b.  1789.  ...  8^ 

Children  of S3,  1 16 

Blatchford,  Harriet  Wickes  (1)    83 

Blatchford,  Harriet  Wickes  (2)    83 

Blatchford,  Helen  Wheeler <r, 

Blatchford,  Rev.  John,  D.  D...81,  82,  88, 

95,  98  (2),  99,  116,  124 

Children  of 82,  95 

Blatchford,  John,  b.  18S8 96 

Blatchford,  John  Samuel 82,  95 

Blatchford,  John  T 83,   116 

Blatchford,   Kate    116 

Blatchford,  Luther  Morrill 99 

Blatchford,  Martha  Wickes.  .82,  95,  98,  99 

Blatchford,  Mary  Cebra 82,  95 

Blatchford,  Mary  Emily 95 

Blatchford,  Mary  Emily  Williams,  Chil- 
dren of 95 

Blatchford,  Natalie  Cary  Green 116 

Blatchford,   Nathaniel   Hopkins 95,  99 

Blatchford,  Nathaniel  Hopkins  (2)  ....   99 
Blatchford,  Paul 95,  124 

Children  of   96 

Blatchford,  Richard  Milford 82,  95 

Blatchford,  Richard  Milford,  b.  1859.  ..116 

Blatchford,  Rev.  Samuel,  D.  D 95 

Blatchford,  Samuel  T 83,  116  (2) 

Blatchford,    Thomas    Wickes,    b.    1820 

83,  "6  (4) 

Blatchford,  Thomas  W.,  Bible  of 47 

Blatchford,  Thomas  Wickes,  M.  D.... 


.71,  72,  83,  95,  116 


Children  of 83 

Blatchford,   Thomas   Windeatt    116 

Blatchford,  Thomas  Windeatt   (2)....  116 

Bliss,  Alice  Wood   96 

Bliss.  Amy  Blatchford.  Children  of...   96 

Bliss  Daniel 96 

Bliss,   Howard   Huntington    96 

Bliss,  Rev.  Howard  Sweetser,  Children 

of    96 

Bliss,  Margaret  Blatchford  96 

Bliss,  Mary  Williams 9° 

Boston    91 

Boston  News  Letter,  1705  119 

Boulder    (Montana)    104 

Bradford,  Elizabeth  W 14 

Breeze,   Mrs 101 

Bridgeford  (Conn.)   81 


INDEX 


II  i 


Bridgehampton  (L.  I.)    ., .   40 

Bridgeport  (Conn.)    82,  95 

"Brief    Description    of    New  York,"  by 

Daniel  Denton.  1670 123 

Brighton,  Staten  Island  (N.  Y.) 

; 75-  79,  "5>  "6 

Brinkerhoof,  Abraham    124 

Brinkerhoof,   Margretia    124 

Bristol    (Eng.)    15 

"Broadwood  Kelley"   10 

Brookhaven  (Suffolk  Co.,-L.  I.)    25 

Brooklyn  (X.  Y.)   101,  102, 

....  104,  106,  10S,  no.  in.  112,  116  (2) 

Children's  Aid  Soc 77 

Cumberland  Street  Mission  School 

77 

Home  for  Aged  Men 77 

Lafayette  Ave.  Church 76 

Young  Men's  Christian  Ass'n.  ...   77 

Brown,  Jesse 36 

Brush,  Eliphalet 32,  52,  86 

Brush,  Hannah 32 

Brush,  Hannah  Wickes 86 

Brush,  John  32,  86 

Brush,  Ruth  Wickes 86 

Brush,  Sarah 36,  48,  87 

Brush,  Thomas   27   (2),  28 

Brussels  (Belgium)   91 

Bryan,   Hannah    1  j8 

Bryan,  Richard 1 18 

Bryer,  Mary  Ann    43 

Buckingham  ( Md.)    15 

Buffet,  Capt.  John 52 

Bull's  Ferry ,. .   91 

Bunce,  Matthew   28 

Callender,  John   13.  H 

Calumet  (Mich.)    108 

Cambridge  College   (Mass.)    118 

Cambridge  Univ.  (Eng.)    122 

Camden  (N.  Y.)    91 

Canaan  (N.  Y.)  Congregational  Church 

79 

Canada  Expedition,  1690 12 

Canton  (O.)    105 

Carline,  a  slave    29 

Carlton,  Brit.  Gov.  1783 53 

Carman.    See  also  Carmen 125 

Carman,  Hannah  125  (2) 

Carman,  Thomas   • 125 

Carmen.     See  also  Carman  87 


Carmen,  Hannah 87 

Carpenter,  Anne 36 

Carpenter,  Joseph    12 

Carver,  Metzer 37 

Cary,  Rev 14 

Cathcll,  Lilla 91 

Cebra,  John  Yates 44,  83,  101,  120 

Cebra,  Mary  Harriman 44,  83,  120 

Ceser,  and  his  wife ;  negro  slaves 31 

Charles  II.,  Charter  of   14 

Chicago  (111.) Si.  82,  8S,  92,  95,  99,  105 

Manual    Training    School    of  the 

Univ.  of  Chicago 105 

Children,  Mode  of  naming 125 

Church  contributions 119 

Civil  War    77 

Clark,  Carita  Tyler 97 

Clinton,  Governor 50,  51,  52,  53 

Close,  Rev.  John 36,  37,  39,  52,  86 

Close,  Mary  YYickes 86 

Cogswell,  Margaret  Perkins 113 

Cogswell,  Martha  Breck 113 

Cogswell,  William  F 113 

Cold  Spring  (L.  I.) 52 

Collins,  Alice  Biatchford   98 

Collins,  Amos  Morris   9S 

Collins,  Amos  Morris  (2)   98  (2) 

Collins,  Amos  Morris  (3)   98 

Collins,  Anna   Biatchford 98 

Collins,  Charles  Biatchford 98 

Collins,  Charlotte  Brown  Young.  ......   98 

Collins,  Frances  Wickes   98 

Collins,  John  Biatchford 98  (2) 

Collins,  Martha  Biatchford  98,  99 

Collins,  Martha  Wickes 95,  98 

Collins,     Martha     Wickes     Biatchford, 

Children  of   9& 

Collins,  Mary  Lyman   98 

Collins,  Morris,  m.   1S52 95,  98 

Children  of 98 

Collins,  Morris   (2)    9s 

Collins,  Nellie  Davis   98 

Collins,  Richard  Ely 9S 

Conant,  Bertha  91 

Conitucott  River    21 

Conklin,  Hannah    36 

Conklin,  Jacob   26,  52 

Conklin,  Jemima 35 

'  Conklin,  Mary 35.  36  (2) 

Conklin,  Stephen    35 


IV 


I  N  D  E  X 


Conklin,  Thomas    35 

Connecticut  Colony [5] 

Continental  currency.  Counterfeiters  of.    52 
Continental  money,  Premium  for  appre- 
hending counterfeiters 52 

Cooper,   Thomas,   Letter   to   Rev.   John 

Harriman    , 118 

-    Corey,  Thomas  86 

i  l?    Core,  John 23 

Corfu  (N.Y.) 75 

Cornell,  ( — ) ,  of  Great  Neck 83 

Cornish,  Benjamin   36 

Cornish,  Timothy  36 

Cormvell,  John  117 

Cornwell,  Mary  T 117 

Cortelyou,  Sarah  Van  Wyck 125 

Cortelyou,  Simon 125 

Cory,  David  Uzal  89,  90 

Children  of 90 

Cory,  Eleanor   9° 

Cory,  Mary  Punnett 89,  90 

Cory,  Mary   Punnett  YVickes,  Children 

of 9° 

Cory,  Robert  Haskell   90 

Court  of  Assizes,  Decree  of 20 

Cowharbor  Brocke  (L.  I.)   19 

Cow  harbour 31 

"Cow  Harbour  brooke"    20 

Crabmedoe    19 

Cray  Neck 52 

Dana,  Emma  Louise  Engebretson 92 

Danzem,  Maj 53 

Davenport,  Rev.  John 118 

Davis,  Nellie 9s 

Deag,  a  slave   31 

Dean,  Mary  A 105 

Deep  River,  (Conn.) 75,  113 

De  Hastings  family   9 

De  Lancy,  Colonel 48 

Delhaze,  Lisa    91 

Demont,  Thomas   123 

Dennis,  2d  Lt.  Isaac 52 

Denton,  Abigail    124 

Denton.  Daniel 122  (2).  123,  124 

Denton,  Daniel.    "A  brief  description  of 

New  York,"  1670 123 

Denton,  Eliza   44 

Denton,  Elizabeth 44  (2) 

Denton,   Elizabeth  Ashman 123 

Denton,  James 123,  124 


Denton,   Tanet A  , 

Denton.  Martha 120,  121,  123,  124 

Denton,  Martha,  d.  1757 123 

Denton,  Martha  (called  Patty)    121 

Denton,  Mary   44 

Denton,  Mary  Smith 121,    .  191 

Denton,  Nathaniel 122,  123(2),  124 

Denton,  Nathaniel,  Jr 123,   124 

Denton,  Nehemiah  ....  18,  44  (2),  101,  121 

Denton,  Rev.  Richard 123  (3),  124 

Ancestor  of  the  Dentons  of  Jamaica 

18 

Biography  of 122 

Denton,  Richard,  Jr 122 

Denton,    Samuel,    m.   Hannah   Wickes, 

I/60 36 

Denton,  Samuel,  son  of  the  Rev.  Richard 

Denton   122 

Denton,  Samuel,  1775-99,  son  °f  Thomas 

Denton 121 

Denton,  Sarah   123,  124 

Denton,  Thomas    121    (2) 

Denton,  Thomas,  Jr 121 

Denton    family    122 

Denton  genealogy    124 

Dentons  of  Jamaica 18 

Derivation  of  the  Family 9 

Detroit  (Mich.)    91 

Devon    (Eng.)    Broadwood 10 

Honeychurch    10 

Dinah,  a  slave 28 

Dobbs  Ferry  (N.  Y.) 160 

Doc.  Hist,  of  New  York 85 

Documents,  Ancient 23 

Donaldson,  Lisa  Delhaze 91 

Dorchester   (Mass.)    II,  12 

Douglaston.    Sec  Little  Neck  Bay 125 

Downing,  Blatchford  99 

Downing,  Frank  Collins 99 

Downing,  John  Franklin   98,  99 

Downing.  Martha  Blatchford  Collins. 98,  99 

Drake,  Colonel  52 

East  Haven 1 18 

East  Jersey,   1692    119 

East  Woods,  now  Woodbury  (L.  I.) . .    125 

Eatons  Necke   19 

"Economy  of  Ages,"  1869,  by  the  Rev. 

Thomas  Wickes.  D.  D 69 

Edens  Neck,  1776 52 

Eldert,  Rachel    125 


IN  DEX 


Elizabethtown  (N.  J.)  1 18,  120 

Emot,  James 119 

Englewood  (  N.  Y.) 89,  90,  91 

Ensign,  Charles  K 102 

Ensign,  Edith  Bridgman 102 

Ensign,  Emily  Kingsley   102 

Ensign,  Ethel  Howard 102 

Ensign,  Matilda  Van  Sinderen 102 

Ensign,  May  Wickes ,  . .  .  102,  103 

Epitaphs    38.  41 

Essex     District     Med.     Soc.,     Newark 

JN-    J)      •; 71 

Everitt,  Benjamin    34 

"Expedition,"  The  11 

Faitoute,  Rev 101 

Family,  Derivation  of  the 9 

Farr,  Laura  Rebecca 91 

Fatoute.    See  also  Faitoute 

Fatoute,  Rev 62 

Faulkner,  John 34 

Federal  Store  (L.  I.) 116 

Fishkill  (N.  Y.) 49,  54,  80,  87 

Fishkill  Barracks  (N.  Y.) 58,  87 

Fitch,  Lucy  124 

Flatbush  (L.  I.)   112,  124 

Fletcher's  Patent  of  1694 41 

Flushing  (L.  I.)   51,  106,  121,  125 

Foger,  an   Indian 20 

Forsyth,  Mary  W 92 

Fort  Green 59 

Fort  Hamilton  (N.  Y.) 116  (2) 

Fort  Sumter   77 

Foster,  James   5& 

Fowler,    Ella    106 

Frecke,  Maria  Bell   120 

Fresh  Pond   (L.  I.)    20 

Fuller,    Mabel    109 

Furman,  Rev.  Chas.  E.,  D.  D 62 

Garretsen,  Helen  V.  B 120 

Gates,  General 54 

Gates,  Elizabeth   3^ 

Gates  (N.  Y.) 75 

Genealogy    85-125 

Gen.  Assem.  Magazine,  1S05 14 

Gibb,  Elizabeth  Rossitcr no 

Gibb,   Howard,   Sr no 

Gibb,  Howard,  Jr no 

Gill,  Mary  Esther    100 

Gillespy,  Frances  Bliss   89 

Glendora  (Cal.)    105 


Goldsmith's  Tbe  Vicar  of  Wakefield...   74 

Goodrich,  Jessie  Louise m 

Goodrich,  Judge  William  W m 

Goodwill  Plantation   (S.  C.) 92 

Gorton,   Samuel    13 

Gould,  Joseph -^6 

Granville   (O.)    105 

Gray,  Mary 121 

Great  Barrington   (Mass.) 116 

Great  Neck  (N.  Y.) 106,  115,  117,  124 

Thorne  burial-place   124 

Green,  Dr 79 

Green,  Natalie  Gary 116 

Green,  William  36 

"Green  wagon"  The 61 

Greenbush  (N.  Y.) 64 

Gualterus  Diaconus   9 

Guilford  (Conn.)   75,  113 

Gunn,  Rev.  Alexander,  D.  D 104 

Gunn,  Mary  Antoinette   83,  104 

Hackett,  James,  the  tragedian 62 

Hadiell,  Titus   24 

Hagar,  an  Indian  girl 119 

Hagen,  Horace  Clark 120 

Hagen,  Maria  Bell  120 

Halifax  (Yorkshire,  Eng.) 122 

Coley  Chapel 122 

Hallet's  Cove    121 

Halley,   Ebenezer,    D.  D.      "The   Chris- 
tian's nativity  and  death  contrasted." 

Troy,  1850 57 

Halstead,  Job   28 

Hamilton   (Mo.)    104 

Hancock,  John   123 

Hand,  Silas   36 

Harcutt,  Isabella    85 

Harcutt,  Richard    85 

Harriman.    See  also  Herriman ii3 

Harriman,  Ann    119 

Harriman,   Elizabeth   118 

Harriman,  Elizabeth  Wyckoff 120 

Harriman,  Hannah  Bryan t  18 

Harriman,  Helen  V.  B.  Garretsen 120 

Harriman,  John  (1)    118,  120 

Harriman,  Rev.  John  (2) 118,  119,  120 

Harriman,  John  (3)    119,  120 

Harriman,  Joseph 120 

Harriman,  Leonard   1*9 

Harriman,  Magdalene,  b.  1769 121 

Harriman,  Margaret  M.  Suydam 120 


VI 


INDEX 


Harriman.  Martha  Denton 120 

Harriman,  Mary no 

Harriman,  Richard   . ! 119,  120 

Harriman,  Samuel   1  ia 

Harriman,  Stephen   (1) 120 

Harriman,  Stephen   (2),  changed  name 
to  Hcrriman   120,  121   (2) 


Herriman,  James.     1761-1801 

••; 43> 44. 61,83  (2),  120.  121 

Herriman,  James  (2)   IOi,  {-.j 

Herriman,  John 43-  83,  121 

Herriman,  John  Frecke i_>0 

Herriman.  Laura  Rehecca  Farr gj 

Herriman,  Magdalene. 43,  44,  101,  120,  121 


Harriman,  the  slave  dealer   119     Herriman,  Margaret 43,  83,  121 


Hart,   Cornelius    35 

Hart,   Samuel    36 

Hartford  (Conn.)    -. 95,  98,  1 18 

Hartt.    See  also  Hart. 

Flartt,  Cornelius 31 

Hastings   (Sussex,  Eng.)    9 

Hist,  and  antiq.  by  G.  W.  Moss.  .    15 

St.  Clements  Church   15 

Hatfield's     History     of     Elizabethtown 

118,  119 

Hatherleigh  (Devon,  Eng.)  Parish  Reg- 
ister     i 10 

Haw-trees,  The 122 

Heath,  Michel,  1st  Lieut 52 

Helena    (Montana)    92 

Helme,  Thomas   25 

Hempstead  (L.  I.)    122,  123 

Christ's  First  Church 122 

Dutch  ministers 123 

First  Pastor  of  the  Church 122 

Independents  at 123 

Presbyterians  in  1657 123 

Records.  1657  122 

Hendrick,  Helen 10S 

Hendrick,   James    108 

Hendrickson,  Abraham   30 

Herriman.     See  also  Harriman    118 

Herriman,  Anna  Maria 121 

Herriman,  Bertha  Conant 91 

Herriman,  Carolina   121 

Herriman,  Eliza.  1789-1864 

82,  83,  101,  120,  122 

Nuptials  of 101 

Herriman,    Elizabeth.    1760-1847.      See 

Herriman,  Elizabeth  Smith. 

Herriman,  Elizabeth.   1823-24 120 

Herriman,    Elizabeth    Smith.    1760- 1847 

18,  43,  58,  101,  120,  121    (2) 

Herriman,  Elizabeth  Smith 121 

Portrait  of 120 

Herriman,  Helen    120 


42 


Herriman,  Maria  Bell   120 

Herriman,     Martha,    wife    of    Stephen 

Herriman 

Herriman,     Martha,     m.     1790.     Eliph. 

Wickes  83,  88,  120,  122,  124 

Herriman,  Martha  Denton 123 

Herriman,   Mary,w.    John   Yates   Cebra 


120 


Herriman,  Mary,  m.  L.  T.  Rossiter,  1843 

83 

Herriman,  Stephen  ( 1 )   b.  16S9 120 

Herriman,  Stephen  (2)   

42,  58.  101,  I2i,  123,  124 

Changed  name  from  Harriman  to 


Herriman. 


120 


Herriman,  Stephen    (3)    

• 18.  43,  83,  120  (2),  121 

Children  of 83 

Herriman,  Stephen  (4)  of  New  Orleans 

••• 83,  121 

Herriman,  Stephen  H 120 

Herriman,  William  Henry   120 

Herriman,  William  S.   1791-1S57 

83,  101,  120  (2) 

Children  of   83 

Herriman.  William  S.  1859-96 120 

Herriman   family    118 

Herriman  genealogy    120 

Hevelon,   Sarah    36 

Hewlett,  Cornell  83 

Hewlett,  Elizabeth  Van  Wyck 125 

Hewlett,  Estelle  b.  1S54 106,  117  (2) 

Hewlett,  Hannah   117 

Hewlett,  Hannah   125 

Hewlett,   Hannah   Wickes,    Children   of 

83,  117 

Hewlett,  Harriet 33,  83,  117  (2) 

Hewlett,  Joseph   L.,   Children  of 83 

Hewlett,  Joseph  Lawrence  (1)  of  Great 

Neck  (N.  Y.)...-33>  101,  117  (2),  125 


Hewlett,  Joseph  Lawrence  (2) 

83.  106,  115,  117 

Hewlett,  Joseph  LawVence  (3)   b.  1843 

one  day  old   

Hewlett,  Josephine  Lawrence    

Hewlett,  Josuah  

Hewlett,  Mary  Cornwell 

Hewlett,  Mary  Elizabeth 

Hewlett,   Mary  T.   Cornwell 

Hewlett,  Sarah  M 

Hewlett,  Thomas   - 

Hewlett,  Whitehead  

Heyer,  Isaac 72, 

Heyer.  Mary  Whitney   83. 

Hildreth's  History   

Hinchman,  Emma  Richmond 

Hinchman,  John  J 

Hinchman,  Julie  Rossiter 

Hinchman,  William  Rossiter 

Home  and  Foreign  Missionary  Societies 

"Honest  Lawyer,"  The  

"Honeychurch"  (Devon,  Eng.)   

Hope,  Alice  Wickes 

Hope,  Elizabeth  Darling  Wickes 

Hope,  Frank  M 

Hope,  Mary  Elizabeth 

"Hopewell,"  The   

Hotten's   list    

Houldbroke,   Richard    

Howard,  Joseph 72, 

Howard.  Lydia  Matilda   

Howe,  Lord 

Husrhins.  Sarah   

Huntington  (L.  I.)    17,  18,  28,  52,  61,  80 

Brit,  troops  in  1783   

Offic.  list  of  the  inhab.  of,  1686.  . 

Records      of      the      Presbyterian 


Church,  18S1 

—  Union  Academv 


Huntington  Bay  (L.  I.)    

Huntington  Graveyard  (Huntington).. 
."Huntington      Green."       (Huntington) 

1/39    

Huntington  South  (now  Babylon)    .... 

Huntington  Town  Records 

Hutchinson,  Rebecca  Jane 

Indian   deed   purchase  ,   April    2,     1653 

'. *7> 

July  30,  1656 


INDEX vit 

Oct.  15.  1666 20 

(2) Sept.  17,  16S3  20 

Indian  eastern  purchase   ^1 

117     Oct.  15,  1666 20 

115      Indian   slaves    1 1  q 

125      Inscriptions.  Monumental   38 

117      Introductory   remarks    5 

117     Italy  (Europe)    120 

117     Ithaca  (N.  Y.)   116 

125     Jackson,  U.  S.  Prcs 51,  56 

117     Jacksonville  (111.)  8r,  82.  88,  95 

49  Jamaica  (L.  I.).  .48.  55.  57,  58,  60,  71, 

102  78,  80,  81,  82.  83,  87.  SS,  100,  10 1.  102, 

102  116,  117.  120,  121,  122,  123 

13     Academy  (Union  Hall)    59,  63 

109     Academy  Lane 58,  63 

109     Academy  Street   63 

109     Church  of 63 

109     Dentons  of 18 

Epitaphs  41 

Jj     First  Postmaster  of 56 

55     Inscriptions  at 41 

10     Main  street  63 

104     "Meeting  House  Lane" 63 

104     Presbyterian  Church  in 56 

104     Jamaica  Academy  (L.  I.) 64 

104     Jamaica  church  records       62 

1 1  Jamaica  graveyard    44.  60 

11      Jamaica's  old  church,  1699-1S13 63 

20     Jamestown  (X.  Y.)    68,  105 

102     Jansens,  The  125 

102     Jarvis,    Lois    36 

49     Jefferson,  U.  S.  Prcs 55,  56 

36     Joanes.  Catherine   21 

,  87     Joanes,  Thomas 21  (2) 

52     Jonas,  an  Indian  servant 31 

85     Jones,  Eliphalet 25  (2) 

Jones,  Rev.  John  21,  25 

34  Jones,    Kathairn    (Katherine)    wife    of 

71  Henry  Scudder.     See  Scudder,  Mrs. 

49         Katherine 23 

38     Journal  Pro.  Congress,  vol.  2 52 

Kalom.  Ephrain   28 

27     Kane,  Isaac   37 

51      Kellam,  a  resident  of  Huntington 32 

19  Kellum,  Mary 37 

1 12      Kent,  Isle  of 14 

Kent  County  (Maryland)    14.   *5 

20  Kent  Co.  (R.  I.) 15 

19     Ketcham,  Hester    85 


VIII 


IN  DEX 


Kctcham,  John   8=,s 

Ketcham,  Solomon 32 

Ketchem,  Ensign  Jos.*  1776 52 

King  Philip's  War.   1675 13 

Kings  Co.   (L.  I.)    125 

Kinney,  Ethel  Catlin   89 

Kinship,  Observations  on   15 

Kissam,  Benj'm  T.,  of  Flushing,  1804.  . 

28,29  (3) 

Lamberson,  Judge,  d.   1842 63 

Lamberson,  Conversion  of 62 

Lamberson,  David    62,  63,  64 

Lane,  banker 55 

Langdon,  Joseph    26 

Lansingburg   (N.  Y.) 88,  89 

Larned,  Frances  Greene   99 

Leadbeater,  Agnes  Euphemia 116 

Legend  of  the  Apple-tree 62-64 

Le  Wake.    See  Wake,  Le 10 

Lewes,  Joseph.     See  also  Lewis,  Joseph 

26 

Lewis,  Hannah  86 

Lewis,  Joseph   27  (2) ,  28,  32 

Little  Neck  (N.  Y.)  1813.  .30,  49,  51,  58,  61 

Little  Neck  Bay,  nozv  Douglaston 125 

Livermore  (California)   109 

Liverpool    ( Eng.)    77 

Long  Island    [5],   55,  58 

Battle  of,  Aug.  27,  1776 49 

Settlers  on   17 

Long  Island  Bible  Society 59 

Long  Island  Sound 54 

Long  Island  vs.  Connecticut 19 

Loomis,  Amy  Wickes 115 

Loomis,  Charles  E 115 

Loomis,  Charles  Wickes   115 

Loomis,  Hon.  James  Harvey 115 

Loomis,  John  Harvey  115 

Loomis,   Margaret    115 

Loomis,  Van  Wyck  Wickes 115 

Lord,  Frances  Veazie 96,  124 

Los  Angeles  (Cal.)   105 

Lossing's  History  of  the  U.  S 14 

Louisburg  (Canada)  Expedition,  1744.    12 

Love,  Annie  Webster 92 

Love,  Elizabeth    92 

Love,  Ethelbert 92 

Love,  Rev.  William  Winn 92 

Low  Moor  (Va.) 92 

Lower    9 


J 1 


Lums,  John   

Luther,  Elizabeth   

Lysaght,  William  ■*., 

Lysons  (Historian)    *j0 

McDonald's   History    5^ 

McMullin,  J.  S.     Letter  of,  concerning 

Capt.  Benj.  Wickes : j 4 

MacNaughton,  Ethel  Mayo 108 

MacNaughton,  Peter  Duncan,  M.  D...108 

Makamah  (an  Indian)    20 

Mamarod   (an  Indian)    20 

Manaterorye  (an  Indian)   20 

Manhasset  (L.  I.) 117 

Marietta   (O.)    104,   105 

First  Congreg.  Church   6S,  70 

Mound  Cemetery 46 

Marietta  College    70,  75 

Marietta  Congregational  Conference...   70 

Marietta  Register,  Nov.  17,  1S70 69 

Marion  College  (Mo.)    82,  95 

Marwick   (Eng.)    9 

Mary  (or  Molly) ,  a  slave 30 

Maryland,  Settlers  in   14   (2) 

Massachusetts,  Settlers  in 12 

Massachusetts  Colony [5] 

Mather   122 

Mather's  Magnalia 122 

v  Mathews,  John.    1667 20 

Mayo,  Emilie  K 108 

*  Mayo,  J.  C 108 

Meat,    First    consignment    of  American 

dressed  meat  sent  to  Liverpool 77 

Meggs,  Marke    21 

Messenger,  John  S 34 

Michael,  a  slave   29 

Middlesex,    (Mass.)    12 

Milan  (O.)    105 

Miles,  Elizabeth  Herriman 118 

Miles,  Capt.  John "8 

Miles,  John  (2)    "8 

Milford    (Conn.)    "8 

•  Miller,   Jacob    36 

Mills,  Henry   3° 

Miscellaneous   extracts    52 

Missionaries,  Appointment  of   67 

Mohemos,  an  Indian 20 

Montinwicok,  Sachem   *9 

Monumental  Inscriptions    38 

-Moore,  Amy 79.  IT5 

Moore,  Mary  Martin l74 


I  N  D  E  X 


IX 


Morristown  (X.  J.) 120 

Morton's  Hist,  of  Plymouth 17 

Moss,  G.  W.  History  and  Antiquities  of 

the  Town  of  Hastings.  Sussex,  Eng. .    15 
Nachaquetok,  Indian  name  for  west.  ...    20 

Namerows,  an  Indian 20 

Names,  Origin  of 125 

Ned,  a  slave  of  the  Adriance's  estate,  in 

1 S06    30 

Ned,  a  slave  of  T.  Wickes  of  Jamaica, 

in    1814    30 

Nesaquaque  Indians 20 

Nesequaque,  or  Smithtown  River 20 

Nessaquock,  river  (L.  I.) 19 

Netherway,   Anne    36 

Nettleton,   Rev 59 

Newark  (N.  J.)   119 

Essex  District  Med.  Soc 71 

Newburg.    See  Newburgh  (N.  Y.) .  . .  . 

Newburgh  (N.  Y.) 54.  89,  91,  92,  93 

New  Eng.  Hist.  &  Gen.  Register 17 

New  Haven    (Conn.) 118 

Congregational  Association  of  ...  .   67 

New  Haven  Association 6S 

New  Haven  West  Ass'n 68 

New  Jersey   118 

College  of 71 

Historical  Soc.  of 73 

Med.  Soc.  of 72 

New  Jersey  and  New  York.  Description 

of,  by  Daniel  Denton.  1670 123 

New  Orleans  (La.)    83,  121 

Newport,  General  election  at,  1650 14 

Newtown  (X.  Y.) 58,  82,  100 

New  York   (Colony)    Brief  Description 

of,  by  D.  Denton.  1670 123 

New  York  City.  .58,  60,  62,  72,  83,  89, 

91,  92,  101,  102.  115  (2),  121 

New  York,  First  Presbytery  of 66 

New  York  &  Connecticut,  Boundary  line 

between    Ho 

N.  Y.  Evangelist.  1841 75 

New    York    Evangelist,    Extract  from. 

62 

New  York  Hist.  Soc,  Pub.  Doc 12 

New  York  Observer 66 

Nicoll's  patent,  1666 22 

Nicolls,  Matthias    20 

North  Wyke  (Devon,  Eng.) 10 

Norwalk  (Conn.)    49*  5°.  52,  80,  87 


Notices.    Historical     48 

Nye,  Arthur  Wickes 105 

Nye,  Charles  Nathaniel 104.  105 

Nye,  Harriet  Frances 105  (2) 

Nye,  Harriet  Frances  Wickes   104 

Nye,  Myra  B.  Sturtevant 105 

Nye,  Robert  Carroll 105 

Nye,  Wilbur  Sturtevant  105 

Nye,  William  Putnam 105  (2) 

Oaklev,  James 31 

Oberlin  (0.)   105 

Observations  on  kinship   15 

Onderdonk,  Henry,  Jr 53 

Opcatkontycke.  Indian  name  for  east.  .   20 
Opkaltontycke,    Indian    name    for  Cow 

Harbour  brooke.      1666 20 

Orange  (N.  J.)  . .  .59,  6S,  72,  101,  102.  108 
Oranges,    Name   of   the.     See   Wickes, 

Stephen,  M.  D 77, 

Ordinance  members   50 

Oxford  (Mass.)   J-.,  113 

Oyster  Bay  (L.  I.)     Settlement  of.  1653 

17.18,85 

Oyster  Bay  Records   17 

Padwick  (Eng.)   9 

Page,  Charles  Ensign   103 

Page,  Edith  Ensign   103 

Page,  May  Wickes  Ensign 103 

Page,   Peirson   Sterling,  M.  D 103 

Parmelee,  Ellen    89 

Parmelee,  Ethel  Catlin  Kinney 89 

Parmelee,  Frances  Bliss  Gillepsy 89 

Parmelee,  Harriet  Douw  Alley 89 

Patronymic    9 

Peck's   (Jeremiah)   Gram.  School,  New 

Haven  (Conn.;  1 18 

Penniman,  Anna   81.  89 

Penniman,  Julia.  1829  8l,  8S 

Penniman,   Olive   Fitch    88 

Penniman,   Sylvanus    88 

Pennington's    (Dr.)    Tribute  to  Dr.    S. 

Wickes   71 

Pennsylvania,  Univ.  of 71 

Peter,  a  negro   31 

Philbrick,  Ella  Marion 95.  99 

Piano,  a  rare  instrument 5° 

Pine,  Esther   36 

Piatt,  Mr.   1776 52 

Piatt,  Epenetus.   1681    2I 

Piatt,  Capt.  Epenetus,  1690 25 


INDEX 


Piatt,  Epenetus.  t;i8 28 

Piatt,  Goodman  Epenetus,   Gent 22 

Piatt,  Hannah    ! 35,  86 

Piatt,  Isaac 21  (3),  26 

Piatt,  Israel  32 

Piatt,  Mary 36 

Piatt,  Philip 26.  27  (2) .  28 

Plymounth     Colony.       See     Plymouth 

Colony    11 

Plymouth   (Mass.)    118 

Morton's  Hist,  of  .  ." 17 

Plymouth  Colony [5] ,  11 

Polhernus,  Anna 124 

Polhemus,  Caroline  Harriman 121 

Polhernus,   Henry   D 121 

Polhemus,  Rev.  Johannis  Theodorus.  .  124 

Polhernus,  John   125 

Polhemus,  Mary  Van  Wyck 125 

Porto  Rico  (W.  Indies)    100 

Poughkeepsie   (N.  Y.) 

64.  65,  81,88  (2),  89,  91,  93 

Powel,  John 26 

Powell,  Thomas 21,  23,  24 

Poynepya,  an  Indian  20 

Presbyterian  Church,  The,  and  Theologi- 
cal Opinions    67 

Presbyterian    Church,    the    earliest    in 

America   122 

Prime,  Rev.  Ebenezer  34,  35,  37 

Prime's  Hist,  of  L.  1 38,  118,  119 

"Primrose,"  The    n 

Prims,  Mr.  1736 26 

Princeton  (Mass.)   75 

Princeton  Theological  Seminary  ....  56,  66 
Bequest  of  Thomas  Wickes 33 

The  Eliphalet  Wickes  Scholarship, 

1825    56,  66 

Princeton  Univ.,  Divinity  School 64 

Providence  (R.  I.) 54 

Annals  of  14 

Plantations,   1663   1.4 

Punnett,  Anna,  d.   1842.     See  Punnett, 

Anna  Stewart 45,  82  (2),  IOO 

Punnett,  Anna  Stewart,  m.  1838,  d.  1842. 

82  (2),  100 

Punnett,  Anna  Stewart,  b.  1842.  . .  .82,  100 

Punnett,  Edward  Kirk 82,  100 

Punnett,  Elizabeth   45.  82>  IO° 

Punnett,  Harriet  .  .  .41,  45  (2),  82,  88,  100 
Children  of  82,  100 


Punnett,  Harriet  Wickes.    See  Punnett, 

Harriet. 
Punnett,  Henry 

..41,45  (3)',  58,  81,  82  (2),  88,  100  (2) 

Children  of 82 

Punnett,  Henry  Walker.  1830-31 .41,  82,  100 

Punnett,  L.  Gertrude  Roosevelt 100 

Punnett,  Maria   81,  88 

Punnett,  Mary  Esther  Gill io-> 

Punnett,  Rev.  Thomas  Wickes  . . .  .82,  100 

Punnett,  William  Henry 82,  100 

Queens  Co.  (X.  Y.) 59,  124 

Queen's  County,  Hist,  of 122 

Quincy  (111.)  .' 95 

Rachel,  a  slave  31 

Reading  (Steuben  Co.,  N.  Y.) 22 

Reforms  in  a  Mining  town 77 

Refrigeration,  Patent  for   77 

Refrigerator  cars,  The  Wickes   77 

Rennsselaer  Polytechnic  Institution....   7^ 

Revolutionary  War 49,  58,  61 

Rhode  Island.  Settlers  in 12 

Rhode  Island  Colony  [5],  14 

Richmond,  Emma 108 

Richmond,  Robert   108 

Rippowanes  (Xew  Haven  Colony).  See 

Stamford  (L.  I.) 18 

Robbins,  Martha    125 

Roberts,  Ezekiel 26,  27 

Rochester  (N.  Y.) 75,  76,  101,  113 

Oxford    St 75 

Rockwell,  Lydia  Frances   104 

Rockwell,  Mary  A.  Dean   105 

Roe,  Lawrence 28,  29  (3) 

Roe,  Silas   63 

Rogers,  Noah  20 

Rogers,  Sarah   35>  &6 

Rogers,  William   I9"2° 

Roosevelt,  L.  Gertrude 100 

Rossiter,  Anna 42,  106 

Rossiter,  Arthur  Lawrence 42,  106 

Rossiter,  Arthur  Wickes 106 

Rossiter,    Clinton    Lawrence,    b.     i860 
106,    in 

Rossiter,  Clinton  Lawrence  (2)  b.  1895 
in 

Rossiter,  Dorothy lo$ 

Rossiter,  Edward  Lawrence 106  (2) 

Rossiter,  Edward  Van  Wyck. .  106,  117  (4) 
Rossiter,  Ella  Fowler   i°6 


INDEX 


XI 


Rossiter,  Elizabeth   106,   1 10 

Rossiter,  Emilie   108 

Rossiter,  Eniiiie  K.  Mayo 108 

Rossiter,  Emma  Richmond 10S 

Rossiter,  Ernest  Tuttle 106 

Rossiter,  Estelle  Hewlett 106  (2)    117 

Rossiter,  Ethel  Mayo  108 

Rossiter,  Frank  Herriman 106 

Rossiter,  Frank  Powers 106 

Rossiter,  Helen  Hendrick 10S 

Rossiter,  Helen  Wickes    108 

Rossiter,  Jessie  Louise  Goodrich 11 1 

Rossiter,  Julie 10S,   109 

Rossiter,  Lawrence  Fowler   106 

Rossiter,  Lille 1 1 1 

Rossiter,  Lucius  T 42  (4),  83,  101,  106 

Rossiter,  Lucius  T.  (2),  b.  1856 106 

Rossiter,  Mabel  Fuller  109 

Rossiter,  Margaret 109 

Rossiter,  Marie  Louise 108 

Rossiter,  Mar jorie  111 

Rossiter,  Mary  Hewlett   106 

Rossiter,  Mary  Van  Wyck 101 

Rossiter,  Mary  Wickes,  b.    1817 

42  (3).  106 

Children  of 106 

Rossiter,  Mary  Wickes,  Portrait  of...  106 
Rossiter,  Mary  Wickes,  b.  1849-52.  .42,  106 

Rossiter,  Richmond  109 

Rossiter,  Ruth  Mabel 109 

Rossiter,  Van  Wyck 109 

Rossiter,  Van  Wyck  Wickes   108,  109 

Rossiter,  Walter  King 108 

Rossiter,  William  108 

Rossiter,  William  Wickes.  106,  108,  109  (2) 
Rossiter,  William  Winton  Goodrich. . .  .111 

Rumford,   Count 38 

Ruskin,  John 74 

Russels,  Phebe   36 

St.  Louis  (Mo.) 95,  106 

St.   Paul    (Minn.) 100 

St  Thomas  (Island)    81,  100 

Salem    (Mass.)    12,  68 

Salisbury   ( Vt.)    n 

Sammis,  Jeremiah   32 

Sand  Lake  (N.  Y.) 64,  81,  88 

Sandwich  (Mass.)   12 

Santapogue  (Huntington,  L.  I.) 23 

Saratoga  Springs  (N.  Y.) 117 

Savage :  New  Eng.  genealogies 18,  85 


Schaghticoke  (N.  Y.)   57 

Schenectady  (N.  Y.)  Union  College...  71 

Scudder,  Abigail 24,  25,  87 

Scudder,  Catherine 21,  2^,  Sy  (3) 

Deed  of 23 

Last  will  of 2} 

Scudder,  David 23,  24  (2),  86 

Scudder,  Henry.  .21,  2^  (3),  24,  86,  87  (2) 

Scudder,  Jemima 36,  48,  ^>6,  S7  (2) 

Scudder,   Jonathan,   Sr 23(2), 

24(2),  25(2),  26(3),  31,  86(2),  87(3) 
Scudder,  Jonathan,  Collector's  warrant 

to    26 

Deed  of 26 

Last  will  of  24 

Scudder,  Jonathan,  Jr 

24(3),  25,  26  (2),  86  (2),  S7(2) 

Scudder,  Jonathan,  Jr.   and  Sr.   Deeds 

and  wills  of 86 

Scudder,  .  Katherine.   .  Sec.    Scudder, 

Catherine. 

Scudder,  Mary   86 

Scudder,  Maria  Punnett 81 

Scudder,  Moses  24  (2),  86 

Scudder,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Jonathan 

Scudder,  Sr 24,  87 

Scudder,   Rebecca,    daughter   of  Henry 

Scudder    86 

Scudder,  Sarah,  wife  of  Jonathan  Scud- 
der, Sr 24,  25,  87 

Scudder,   Sarah,  daughter  of  Jonathan 

Scudder,  Sr 24,  25,  87 

Seeley,   Capt 21 

Seely,  Catherine 21 

Sentepogue   (Huntington,  L.  I.) 31 

Setauk  (Connect.  Colony)   18 

Seth,  a  slave  29 

Simkins,   Nicholas    12 

Skaneateles  (N.  Y.)  100 

Skidmore,   Hannah    36 

Skidmore,  Phebe   121 

Skidmore,  Philip    37 

Skidmore,  Samuel  121   (2) 

Skinner,  Abraham   54 

Slave,  Price  of  a 119 

Slavery  in  1697 1  *9 

Slaves,  Documents  relating  to 28-30 

Smith,  Benjamin  K>l,  121 

Smith,  David 3^ 

Smith,  Elizabeth 120,  121  (4) 


XII 


INDEX 


Smith,  Ephraim   121    (2) 

Smith,  Harriot  Hewlett   S3,   117 

Smith,  Harriet  Wickes   117 

Smith,  Isaac   121    (2) 

Smith,  Jane  Bunce 1 16 

Smith,  John 42,  52,  123 

Smith,  John  H 28,  29  (3) 

Smith,  Martha    42 

Smith,  Martha  Denton 123 

Smith,  Mary,  widow  of  Ephraim  Smith, 

and  wife  of  Thomas  Denton.  101,  121  (3) 
Smith,  Mary,  daughter  of  Ephraim  and 

Mary  Smith 121 

Smith,  Mary  Herriman 121 

Smith,  Othniel    58 

Smith,   Samuel    35 

Smith,  Samuel  Skidmore   101,  121 

Smith,  Sarah  (or  Sally) .  .43,  101,  121  (2) 

Smith,  Susan 1 17 

Smith,  Col.  William 25.  48 

Smith,  William  Mitchell  (1)   83"",  117 

Smith,  William  Mitchell  (2)    117 

Smith's  Hist,  of  New  Jersey 119(2) 

Smith's  History  of  New  York 17 

Smithtown   River    20 

''Son  of  Man,"  by  Dr.  Thomas  Wickes.   69 

Soper,  Henry 21 

Southampton  (L.  I.)   1 18 

Springfield  (Mass.)   103 

Staines    (Middlesex  Co.,  Eng.) 13 

Stamford  (Conn.)    20,  122 

"Star  of  the  West"  Steamer 77 

Staten  Island  (N.  Y.)   125 

Stebbins,  Abigail   124 

Stebbins,  Benjamin    124 

Stephens,  Annie  L.  Wickes 112 

Stephens,  Benjamin  Fredenburgh   (i).U2 
Stephens,  Benjamin  Fredenburgh   (2).  112 

Stephens,  Carrie  Wickes 112 

Stephens,  Everett  Irving   112 

Stephens,  Florence  Parsons  112 

Stephens,  William  Wickes   112 

Stewart,  Anna    82(2),  100 

Stillwater  (N.  Y.)    82,  95 

Stinson,  Helen  C 104 

Stony  Point,  taken  July  15,  1779 54 

Stratton,  Sam'l 27(2),  28 

Stretton,  Cornelius 36 

Sturtevant,  Myra  B 105 

Sucetoque  Indians   20 


SufTold  County  (N.  Y.)   „ 

Suffolk    Co.    (N.    Y.),    Evacuation    of, 

I/S3   '  53 

''Suffolk    County,    in    olden   times,"    by 

Henry  Onderdonk,  Jr '.    -  x 

Surveyors   certificates,    1736-1739. ..  .26-28 

Suydam,  Hendrick I2j 

Suydam,  Margaret  M 120 

Syhar,  an  Indian   20 

Table  of  Contents - 

Taylor,  Mary  Ward  Wickes 104 

Taylor,  Rev.  Nathan,  D.  D 67 

Taylor,  Rev.  Nathaniel  W.,  D.  D 79 

Taylor,  William  Warren 104 

Thompson,    Col.    Benj.    (Count    Rum- 
ford)    38 

Thompson,  First  Lieut.  Isaac 52 

Thompson,  Nellie  Rebecca 98 

Thompson's  History  of  Long  Island..    17 

Thorne,    Mary    125 

Thorne  burial  place 124 

Tilden,  Jerial    37 

Titus,  Arthur  Rossiter   106 

Titus,   Charles   Edward    ( 1 ) 106 

Titus,  Charles  Edward  (2) 106 

Titus,  Estelle  Hewlett  Rossiler 106 

Titus,  Samuel   21 

Tombs,  desecrated  by  the  British 33 

Tompkins,  Gov.  Annual  message,  1814.   59 

Toney,  a  negro  slave 119 

Tooker,  Charles,  Jr 119 

Townsend,  John 13 

Townsend,  Joseph  36 

Treat,  Joseph   119 

Treat,  Robert   119 

Troy  (N.  Y.) 

16,  58,  59,  71,  72,  75,  77,  78,  8i, 

82,  87,  88(2),  91,  100,  102(2),  106,  116 

First  Presb.  Church 68 

Oakwood  Cemetery 45 

River  St.,  No.  27 59 

Second  Street  Presb.  Church....   57 

3d  Street.    1836 59 

Troy  and  Boston  Railroad 56,  57 

Troy  paper,  June  8,  1850 57 

Troy  Presbytery   68 

Tucker,  Eliz   37 

Udall,   Mary    36 

Univ.  of  Cambridge  (Eng.) 122 

Univ.  of  Pennsylvania   71 


IND 

Untherneck   (L.  I.),  1666 20 

Updike's     Hist,    of    the     Narragansett 

Church   • 13 

Utica  (N.  Y.)   91 

Valentine,  Ruth 37 

Van  Brunt,  Cornelius   30 

Van  Cortland,  Pierre 52 

Van  Sinderen,  or  Van  Sinderin,  or  Van- 

sindren,  William  H.,  M.  D .  .72,  83,   102 

Van         ck,  Joshua  H 49,  125 

Van  Wyck 18 

Van  Wyck,  Abigail   .  . .  .^y,  48,  87,  125(2) 
Van    Wyck,    Abraham,    son    of    Barent 

and  Hannah  Van  Wyck 125(2) 

Van  Wyck,   Abraham,   son   of   Samuel 

and  Hannah  Van  Wyck 125(2) 

Van  Wyck,  Abraham,  son  of  Theodorus 

Van  Wyck  (  1 )   124 

Van  Wyck,  Abraham  H 125 

Van  Wyck,  Altie   124 

Van  Wyck,  Anna  Polhemus 124 

Van  Wyck,  Barent 48,  87,  124,  125 

Van  Wyck,  Cornelius  124 

Van  Wyck,  Cornelius  Barentse. .  .  124,  125 

Van  Wyck,  Eliza  Herriman 101 

Van  Wyck,  Elizabeth   125 

Van  Wyck,  Hannah  Carman 125 

Van  Wyck,  Hannah  Hewlett   125 

Van  Wyck,  Johannes   124,  125 

Van  Wyck,  Margretia  Brinkerhoof.  . .  .124 

Van  Wyck,  Martha  Robbins 125 

Van  Wyck,  Mary,  daughter  of  Abraham 

and  Zeruah  Van  Wyck 125 

Van  Wyck,  Mary,  daughter  of  Barent 

Van  Wyck 125 

Van  Wyck,  Mary  Thorne 125 

Van  Wyck,  Rachel  Eldert 125 

Van   Wyck,   Samuel,   son  of  Abraham 

and  Zeruah  Van  Wyck 125 

Van  Wyck,  Samuel,  son  of  Barent  Van 

Wyck I25(2) 

Van  Wyck,  Samuel  Hewlett 125 

Van  Wyck,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Abraham 

and  Zeruah  Van  Wyck 125 

Van  Wyck,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Barent 

Van  Wyck   125 

Van   Wyck,    Mrs.    Sarah    M.    Hewlett, 

wife  of  Joshua  Van  Wyck. .  .49,  50,  125 

Van  Wyck,  Susanna  124 

Van  Wyck,  Capt.  Thomas  125 


E  X • xiii 

Van  Wyck,  Theodorus  (1),  son  of  Cor- 
nelius Barentse  Van  Wyck.  .  124(2),   12^ 
Van    Wyck,    Theodorus     (2),    son    of 
Theodorus  and  Margretia  Van  Wyck 

124,    125 

Van    Wyck,    Theodorus    (3),    son    of 

Barent  and  Hannah  Van  Wyck 12c 

Van  Wyck,  William 12^ 

Van  Wyck.  Zeruah 125  (2) 

Van  Wyck  family 80,  124-125 

Van  Zant  61 

Van  Zants,  The  125 

Vandenburgs,  The  125 

Vansindren,  Mary  W.  Heyer 83 

Veal,  Capt  Piatt .' 52 

Wabash  College  (Wabash,  Ind.) 70 

Wac,  Hugh  (Lord  of  Wiles  ford) 9 

Wachusett  Mountain  (Mass.)    75 

Wake,  Arclibishop    10 

Wake  (Le)  Hereford  10 

Wakes  family   9 

Wallace  and  Wickes  77 

Wallingford    (Conn.)    118 

Wampum    119 

Wappinger's  Creek  (Dutchess  Co., 

L.  I.)    121 

War  of  1812  59 

War  of  the  Revolution [5],  17 

Washburn,  Win 123 

Washington,  George,  U.  S.  Prcs.  . .  .50,  54 
Washington's   Headquarters   at   Fishkill 

(N.  Y.)   57 

Watertown   (Mass.)    122 

Webster,  Fanny   02 

Webster  (N.  Y.)   75 

Weekes.  See  also  Weeks,  Wick,  Wicks, 
Wikes,  Wyke. 

Weekes,    Ammail    12 

Weekes,  Daniel   17 

Weekes,  Francis   10,  11 

Weekes,  George  10,  11,  12 

Weekes,  John   II,  21,  22 

Weekes,  John  A 12 

Weekes,  or  Weeks,  Joseph II,  12 

Weekes,  Margaret   3^ 

Weekes,  Sir  Richard 10 

Weekes,  Robert   22 

Weekes,  Thomas  (1),  Patentee  of  Hunt- 
ington (L.  I.)   11(2),  18-22 


XIV 


INDEX 


Weekes,  Thomas (2).  See  Capt.  Thomas 

Wicks 22 

Weekes,  Thomas  (3)   .  .* 22 

Weekes,  William,  son  of  George  Weekes  12 

Weekes,  William.    Will,    1746 22 

Weeks.    See  also  Weekes,  Wick,  Wicks, 

Wikes,  Wyke. 

Weeks,  Weekes,  or  Wicks,  George....  11 
Weeks,  or  Wickes,  emig.  betw.  1634  and 

1640 ii 

Weeks,  or  Wicks,  Francis,  emig.   1635 

II,  17 

Weeks,  Alice 12 

Weeks,  Ammiel,  d.  1679 12 

Weeks,  Ammiel,  soldier   12 

Weeks,  Anna    11 

Weeks,  Bertha   12 

Weeks,  Elizabeth  12 

Weeks,   Francis    10 

Weeks,  Hannah    12 

Weeks,  John,  of  Bristol  (Eng.),  1633. .  15 
Weeks,  John,  son  of  Francis  Weeks  of 

Oyster  Bay  (L.  I.)    17 

Weeks,  John.   Louisburg  soldier  in  1744  12 

Weeks,  John  M 11 

Weeks,  Joseph,  tivo  of  same  name,  emig. 

1635 11 

Weeks,  Joseph,  son  of  Francis  Weeks 

of  Oyster  Bay  (L.  I.)   17 

Weeks,  Joseph,   in  the  Canada   Exped. 

1690 12(2) 

Weeks,    Joseph.     Louisburg    soldier    in 

1744   • I2 

Weeks,  Josiah 35 

Weeks,  Maria  n 

Weeks,  Mary    12 

Weeks,  Matthew    n 

Weeks,  Robert  D.,  author  of  "Genealogy 

of  the  fam.  of  G.  Weekes" 10 

Weeks,   Samuel    17 

Weeks,  Symon   1 1 

Weeks,  Thomas,  emig.  1635 II,  12 

Weeks,  Thomas,  son  of  Francis  Weeks 

of  Oyster  Bay  (L.  I.)   17 

Weeks,  Thomas,  of  Dorchester,  Mass.  12 

Weeks,  Zachary   12 

Wekes,  Elizabeth 15 

Wekes,  Margery    15 

Wekes,  Thomas   15 

West  Ely  (Mo.)    95 


91 

V' 
99 
91 

95 


West  Farms  (N.  Y.) 64(2) 

Wethersfield  (Conn.)    20,  122 

Wheeler,  Charlotte  Penniman 81, 

Wheeler,  Rev.  Francis  B.,  D.  D 8s| 

Wheeler,   Helen    

Wheeler,  Julia  Wickes 

Wheeling   (Va.)    82, 

Whitefield,  Rev.,  the  wonderful  preacher 

•• 62,  63,  64 

Whitehead,    Daniel    20 

Whitehead,   William  A 73 

White  Plains  (N.  Y.)   48 

Whitfield.    See  Whitefield. 

Whitman,  Anne   36 

Whitman,   Miriam    35 

Whittembre,  Joseph   21 

Wick.    See  also  Weekes,  Weeks,  Wicks, 

Wikes,  Wyke. 

Wick 

Wickes,  or  Weeks 10,  II, 


Wickes 


byterian  Church,  Huntington,  during 
the  Rev.  Prime's  ministry  1723-79.  .  .   34 


Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 
Wickes 


9 
15 


The,  in  the  Records  of  the  Pres- 


Abigail   41,  47,  48,  80 

Abigail  Van  Wyck 87,   125 

Albert  Ethelred 115 

Alexander  22 

Alfred  Donaldson 91 

Alice  Herriman   113 

Allen  Lansing   89 

Ambrose    34,  36 

Amelia  Lambert 46,  104 

Amy   115(2) 

Ananias    34 

Ann  (>;;.  Jos.  Carpenter) 12 

Anna    34 

Anna,  bapt.  April  22,  1739.  ...  35 

Anna  Penniman 81,  89 

Anne,  m.  Benj.  Cornish  1736.  .   36 

Anne,  bapt.  Sept.  18,  1763 35 

Annie    L 112 

Annie  Webster 92 

Azariah    34.  36 

Benajiah    36 

Capt.   Benjamin    14 

Bethiah  36 

Bethsheba    39 

Bradford    89 

Caroline  Hubbell 104 

Charlotte  Penniman 81,  88,  91 


INDEX 


xv 


Wickes,  Conklin 3^ 

Wickes,  Cordelia  Penniman  ...  .45,  81,  88 
Wickes,  Daniel,  of  Huntington  (L.  I.).    16 
Wickes,    Daniel,    son    of    Francis    and 
Elizabeth     Wickes,     in    Oyster     Bay, 

1683    12 

Wickes,  Daniel,  son  of  Joseph  and  Han- 
nah Wickes    22(3) 

Wickes,  Daniel,  bapt.  1724  . 34 

Wickes,  Daniel,  bapt.  1748 34 

Wickes,  Daniel,  bapt.  1757 35 

Wickes,  Daniel,  m.  Rebecca  Wood  1750  36 
Wickes,  David,  son  of  Daniel  and  Re- 
becca  Wickes,    1784    22 

Wickes,  David,  bapt.  1755 35 

Wickes,  David,  bapt.  1769 35 

Wickes,  Dean  Rockwell 105 

Wickes,  Deborah,  wife  of  Thomas 

Wickes  (2)   85 

Wickes,  Deborah,  bapt.   1742,  daughter 

of  Thomas  Wickes    (4)    35,  86 

Wickes,  Dennice   22 

Wickes,  Ebenezer,  bapt.  1749  34 

Wickes,  Ebenezer,  bapt.   1768   35 

Wickes,  Edward  Allen,  b.  1843.  -8l,  89,  92 

Wickes,  Edward  Dana  92 

Wickes,  Elijah   34 

Wickes.  Eliphalet  (1),  1707-61. .27  (2), 
28,  31,  32(2),  35,  36,  38(2),  39,  48,  86(2) 

Last  will,   1761    31-32 

Wickes,   Eliphalet    (2),    1769-1850 

[51   (2), 

18,  33,  41,  45-  47-  5°,  54-57-  58(2), 
64,  80(2),  81,  83(2),  86,  87(2), 
88(2),  98.   100,  101,   117,   120,   122,  124 

Portrait  of   54 

Wickes,  Eliphalet   (3),   1820-99 

81(2),    88,  S9 

Wickes,  Eliza  Hc-rriman 82,   122 

Wickes,  Eliza  Herriman,  b.  1823 120 

Wickes,   Eliza  Herriman,   1789-1864. . . 

41.  42(3).  7h  83,  101 

Wickes,  Eliza  Herriman,  b.  1867 115 

Wickes,  Eliza  Martha 81,  88 

Wickes,  Eliza  Polhemus    102 

Wickes,   Elizabeth,   daughter   of   Daniel 

and  Rebecca  Wickes,  17S4 22 

WTickes,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Erancis 
Wickes   12 


39 


22 


Wickes,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Capt.  John 
Wickes   

Wickes,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Jona- 
than Wickes,  1750 

Wickes,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Jonathan 
Wickes,  Jr.,  1759 22 

Wickes,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Wickes  ( 1 )   85 

W: 

W 

w 
w 
w 
w 
w 
w 
w 
w 
w 
w 
w 
w 


ekes,  Elizabeth,  1723 34 

ekes,  Elizabeth,  baptized  1724 34 

ekes,  Elizabeth,  baptized  1727 34 

ekes,  Elizabeth,  baptized  1738 34 

ekes,  Elizabeth,  baptized  1739 35 

ekes,  Elizabeth,  baptized  1744 34 

ekes,  Elizabeth,  baptized  1746 34 

ekes,  Elizabeth,  baptized  1747 34 

ekes,  Elizabeth,  baptized  1757 35 

ekes,  Elizabeth,  baptized  1761 35 

ekes,  Elizabeth,  baptized  May  9.  1766  35 
ekes,  Elizabeth,  baptized  Nov.  2,  1766  35 
ekes,  Elizabeth,  m.  Sam  Ackerly  1760  36 
ekes,    Elizabeth,    m.    Cornelius    Hart 

1726  > 35 

Wickes,  Elizabeth,  m.  Jerial  Tilden  1779  37 

Wickes,  Elizabeth,  b.  1894 .113 

Wickes,  Elizabeth  Darling 104(2) 

Wickes.  Elizabeth  F.  Bardwell 113 

Wickes,  Elizabeth  Herriman,  1825-51.. 

42,  59-  83-  102 

Wickes,  Elizabeth  Woodbridge 104 

Wickes,  Ellen  Parmelee 89 

Wickes,  Elnathan  (1),  m.  Miriam  Whit- 
man 1728  34-  35 

Wickes,  Elnathan  (2),  baptized  17^9.  ••   34 

Wickes,  Enoch,  baptized    1733 34 

Wickes,  Enoch,  175 1   34 

Wickes,  Epentus   35 

Wickes,  Esther,  1723 34 

Wickes,  Esther,  baptized  1733 35 

Wickes,  Esther,  baptized  1748 34 

Wickes,  Esther,  w.  Sam  Smith  1732 35 

Wickes,  Ezekial    3^ 

Wickes,  Ezekiel    22 

Wickes,  Fanny  Webster   92 

Wickes,  Forsyth 92 

Wickes,  Frances  (1),  1770-76.47(2).  80.  87 

Wickes,  Frances  (2),  I777"78 

47(2),   5°-  8o»  87 


XVI 


INDEX 


Wickes,  Frances,  1S05-75.  wife  of  Rev. 

John  Blatchford  

: 50.  81,  88,  95(2),  98(3),  99.  124 

Wickes,  Francis 12,   13 

Wickes,  Francis  Cogswell 113 

Wickes,  Freelove   35 

Wickes,  George 37 

Wickes,  George  Todd 89,  92 

Wickes,   Gilbert,  Sr 40 

Wickes,   Gilbert,  Jr 40 

Wickes,  Gilbert,  baptized   1732 34 

Wickes,  Gilbert,  baptized  1762 35 

Wickes,  Hanna,  baptized  1732 34 

Wickes,  Hanna,  baptized  1750 35 

Wickes,  Hannah,  baptized  Feb.  16,  1735  34 
Wickes,  Hannah,  baptized  Nov.  2,  1735  34 

Wickes,  Hannah,  baptized  1754  35 

Wickes,  Hannah,  baptized  1765 35 

Wickes,  Hannah,    daughter    of    Daniel 

and  Rebecca  Wickes  22 

Wickes,  Hannah,    daughter    of    Joseph 

and  Hannah  Wickes 22 

Wickes,  Hannah,  m.  Sam  Ackerly,  1751  36 
Wickes,  Hannah,  b.  1735,  m.  John  Brush  86 
Wickes,  Hannah,  m.  Sam  Denton,  1760.  36 
Wickes,  Hannah,  m.  Sam.  Hart,  1754.  .  36 
Wickes,  Hannah,  wife  of  Joseph  Wickes  22 
Wickes,  Hannah,  17S1-1816 

47(2).  So.  80,  83,  S7,  106,  117(3) 

Wickes,  Hannah  Lewis 86 

Wickes,  Hannah  Piatt 86 

Wickes,  Harriet,  1789-1875 32,  47, 

49,  60(2),  80,  83,  87,  95,    101,    116(3) 
Wickes,  Harriet,  1807-36.  .  .81  (2),  88,   100 

Wickes,  Harriet,  1829-31   42,  83,  102 

Wickes,  Harriet,  1837 81,  88,  91 

Wickes,  Harriet  Frances 104-105 

Wickes,  Helen  C.  Stinson 104 

Wickes,  Helen  Lansing  89 

Wickes,  Rev.  Henry,  1821-97 

60,  63,  82,  101,  113 

Biography 75"?6 

Wickes,  Henry  Cathell   91 

Wickes,  Henry  Herriman   113 

Wickes,  Henry  Parmelee   89 

Wickes,  Henry  Sylvanus,   1835-37 

45-  81,  88 

Wickes,  Henry  Van  Wyck 113 

Wickes,  Hester  Ketcham   85 

Wickes,  Hezekiah,  baptized  1725 34 


Wickes,  Hezekiah,  baptized  1733 x* 

Wickes,  Hezekiah,     son     of     Jonathan 

Wickes   .    22 

Wickes,  Hezekiah,  m.  Lois  Jarvis,  175^.    Y> 

Wickes,  Isaac,  baptized  1753 35 

Wickes,  Isaac,  baptized  1758 »r 

Wickes,  Isabella  Harcutt 85 

Wickes,  Jacob 22 

Wickes,  James 12 

Wickes,  James  Henry,  1S41-92  .  .81,  So.  91 

Wickes,  James  Henry,  1S72-73 92 

Wickes,  Jane  Bunce  Smith   116 

Wickes,  Jemima   31,  36,  38,  87 

Wickes,  Jemima  Scudder 48.  86 

Wickes,  Jesse 22,  34 

Wickes,  Joanna   35 

Wickes,   Joel    22,  35 

Wickes,  Johannah    22 

Wickes,  John    12 

Wickes,  John   21,  22 

Wickes,  John    26 

Wickes,  John,  1718   20 

Wickes.  John,  1736 27 

Wickes,  John,  1739 27,  28 

Wickes,  John,  baptized  May  3,  1613.  ...    10 

Wickes,  John,  baptized  1728 34 

Wickes,  John,  baptized  1744 34 

Wickes,  John,  baptized  1754 35 

Wickes,  John,  r,u  Jemima  Conklin,  1720  35 
Wickes,  John,  b.  1652,  m.  Hester  Ketch- 
urn,   1673    22,  85 

Wickes,  John,  ;».  Rose  Townsend 13 

Wickes,  John,  m.  Eliz.  Tucker 37 

Wickes.  John,    killed    by    the    Indians 

(King  Philip's  war),  1675.  .  13(6),  14(2) 
Wickes,  John,  Jr.,  son  of  John  Weekes 

and  Hester  Ketchum  22 

Wickes,   John,   grantee   of  Huntington, 

1694 22,  41 

Wickes,  Rev.  John,  1823-1901 

63,  83,   101,   115(2) 

Biography  of  7&~79 

Wickes,  Copt.  John,  1722-1801 39(2) 

Wickes,  Jonah    35 

Wickes,  Jonas,   1750   22 

Wickes,  Jonas,  baptized  1743 34 

Wickes,  Jonas,  baptized  1762  35 

Wickes,  Jonathan   ( 1 )    22 

Wickes,  Jonathan.  Jr.  (2),  son  of  Jona- 
than Wickes  22(2) 


INDEX 


XVII 


Wickes,  Jonathan   (3)    22 

YYickes,  Jonathan,  1736 26 

Wickes,  Jonathan,  baptized   1743 34 

Wickes,  Jonathan,  m.  Eliz.  Arthur,  1763  36 
Wickes,  Jonathan,  m.  Eliz.  Gates,  1737.  36 
Wickes,  Jonathan,  m.  Anne  Netherway, 

1753  ••••• 36 

Wickes,  Jonithan   28 

Wickes,  Joseph  (1)   22(2) 

Wickes,  Joseph   (2),  son  of  Joseph  and 

Hannah  Wickes : 22 

Wickes,  Joseph 22 

Wickes,  Joseph,  1650 14(3) 

Wickes,  Joseph,  son  of  Francis  Wickes.  12 
Wickes,  Joseph,  m.  Hannah  Lewis  ....  86 
Wickes,  Joseph,  m.  Mary  Piatt,  1749.  . .  36 
Wickes,  Joseph,  of   Chestertown,   Md., 

1843 l6 

Wickes,  Joseph  Howard 102 

Wickes,  Josephine  L.  Hewlett 115 

Wickes,  Josiah,  Sr.,  1737 34 

Wickes,  Josiah,  Jr.,  1762 34,  36(2),  39 

Wickes,  Josiah,  baptized  1735   34 

Wickes,  Josiah,  baptized  1763 35 

Wickes,  Jotham    36 

Wickes,  Jubal  35 

Wickes,  Julia   45(2) 

Wickes,  Julia  Fitch 89 

Wickes,  Julia  Penniman 81,  88 

Wickes,  Keturah    35 

Wickes,  Lambert 14 

Wickes,  Laura  W 113 

Wickes,  Lemuel   36 

Wickes,  Lewis  Webster  92 

Wickes,  Lilla  Cathell 91 

Wickes,  Lydia  Frances  Rockwell 104 

Wickes,  Lydia  Matilda 72,  102 

Wickes,  Margaret,  1682- 1767 39,  86 

Wickes,  Margaret,    b.     1734.    »»■    Sam- 

Alien,  1751    34.  36.  86 

Wickes,  Margaret,  baptized  1750 35 

Wickes,  Margaret,  m.  P.  Skidmore,  1772  37 

Wickes,  Margaret  Perkins  Cogswell 113 

Wickes,  Margaret  Stinson 104 

Wickes,  Maria,  1799-1821,  wife  of 

Thomas  S.  Wickes  4L.  81 

Wickes,  Maria  Punnett  81,  88 

Wickes,  Marie  Louise 89 


Wickes,  Martha   81,  83 

Wickes,  Martha,  1671,  daughter  of 

Thomas  Wickes  ( 1 )   21,85 

Wickes,  Martha,  baptized  1747 34 

Wickes,  Martha,  baptized    1760 35 

Wickes,  Martha,    w.    Stephen    Conklin, 

1728 35 

Wickes,  Martha.  1766-1824,  wife  of 

Eliph.  Wickes  (2)   80,  83 

Wickes,  Martha,  wife  of  Philip  Wickes, 

1699 85 

Wickes,  Martha  Herriman.  .80,  88,  120,  122 
Wickes,  Martha  Herriman,  1848-S4..89,  93 

Wickes,  Mary,  1739 34 

Wickes,  Mary,  1750 34 

Wickes,  Mary,  1759.  daughter  of  Jona- 
than Wickes  (2)    22 

Wickes,  Mary,  167 1,  daughter  of  Thom- 
as Wickes  ( I )   85 

Wickes,  Mary,  baptized  1727 34 

Wickes,  Mary,  baptized  1742 35 

Wickes,  Mary,  baptized  1743 34 

Wickes,  Mary,  baptized  1744 34 

Wickes,  Mary,  baptized   1752   35 

Wickes,  Mary,  baptized   1760   35 

Wickes,  Mary,  baptized  April  12,  1764.  .   35 
Wickes,  Mary,  baptized  Sept.  2,  1764.  .   35 

Wickes,  Mary,  m.  T.  Biggs,  1744 36 

Wickes,  Mary,  m.  Jesse  Brown,  1762.  . .   36 
Wickes,  Mary,  m.  Thomas  Conklin,  1726  35 

Wickes,  Mary,  m.  T.  Cornish,  1764 36 

Wickes,  Mary,  m.  C.  Stretton,  1761 36 

Wickes,  Mary,  1740-1814,  m.  Rev.  John 

Close  3L  32(2)>  36,  86 

Wickes,  Mary,  1813-38,  wife  of  Stephen 

Wickes,  M.  D 72 

Wickes,  Mary,  1S17,  m.  L.  T.  Rossiter.  . 

82,    101,    106(2),    no,    III 

Wickes,  Mary  Antoinette 46 

Wickes,  Mary  Antoinette 104 

Wickes,  Mary  Forsyth 92 

Wickes,  Mary  Heyer 72 

Wickes,  Mary  Heyer 102 

Wickes,  Mary  Hopkins i°-4 

Wickes,  Mary  Punnett 89,  90 

Wickes,  Mary  W.  Heyer 83 

Wickes,  Mary  Ward  I04 

Wickes,  Mary  Whitney I02 


XVIII 


INDEX 


Wickcs,  Matilda  Van  Sinderen 102(2) 

Wickcs,  Miriam   34 

Wickes,  Moses,  baptfzed  1741   35 

Wickcs,  Moses,  baptized  1775 35 

Wickcs,  Nathaniel,  baptized  1747 34 

Wickes,  Nathaniel,  baptized  1756 35 

Wickes,  Nathaniel,  d.  1771 39 

Wickes,   Nathaniel,   m.   Jemima  Wood, 

1741 36 

Wickes,  Penn   37 

Wickes,  Phebe,  1764 34 

Wickes,  Phebe,  baptized  1723 34 

Wickes,  Phebe,  baptized  1752 35 

Wickes,  Phebe,  m.  M.  Carver,  1778.  ...  37 
Wickes,  Phebe,  m.  Joseph  Gould.  1745.  36 
Wickes,    Philip,    1699,   son   of   Thomas 

Wickes  (2)  85(2) 

Wickes,  Philip,  1730 22 

Wickes,  Philip,  baptized  1737 34 

Wickes,  Philip,  m.  Mary  Conklin,  1734.   36 

Wickes,  Philip  Bardwell 113 

Wickes,  Phineas    35 

Wickes,  Piatt,  baptized  1 731    34,  86 

Wickes,  Piatt,  baptized   1762 35 

Wickes,  Rebecca,  1670,  daughter  of 

Thomas  Wickes  (1)    21,  85 

Wickes,  Rebecca,   1784,  wife  of  Daniel 

Wickes 22 

Wickes,  Rebecca,  1784,  daughter  of 

Daniel  and  Rebecca  Wickes 22 

Wickes,  Rebecca,  baptized  1760 35 

Wickes,  Rebecca  Jane  Hutchinson 112 

Wickes,  Robert   13 

Wickes,  Robert  Bardwell 23,  113(2) 

Wickes,  Rose,  daughter  of  John  Town- 
send  13 

Wickes,  Rose,  m.  Isaac  Kane,  1774.  •  •  •   37 

Wickes,  Ruth,  baptized  1730 34 

Wickes,  Ruth,  baptized  1765  35 

Wickes,  Ruth,    daughter    of    Jonathan 

Wickes  ( 1 ) 22 

Wickes,  Ruth,  m.  Brush 86 

Wickes,  Ruth,  m.  W.  Green,  1734 36 

Wickes,  Samuel    14 

Wickes,  Samuel,  son  of  Francis  Wickes, 

1650    12 

Wickes,  Samuel,   1714,  son  of  Thomas 

Wickes   (2)    85(2) 

Wickcs,  Samuel,  1730  22 


Wickes,  Samuel,  m.  Bethiah  Wickes 
.J742 36 

Wickes.  Samuel,  1750,  son  of  Jonathan 

Wickcs   (  1 )    22 

Wickes,  Samuel,  baptized  1754 ->- 

Wickes,   Sarah,   1671,  daughter  of 

Thomas  Wickes  ( I )   8c 

Wickes,  Sarah.  1730-92 40 

Wickes,  Sarah,  baptized  1746 34 

Wickes,  Sarah,  baptized  1751 35 

Wickes,  Sarah,  1759,  daughter  of  Jona- 
than Wickes  (2) 22 

Wickes,  Sarah,  baptized  Sept.  2,  1764..  35 
Wickes,  Sarah,  baptized  Sept.  23,  1764.  35 
Wickes,  Sarah,  m.  Silas  Hand,  1770...  36 
Wickes,  Sarah,  m.  David  Smith,  1770. .   36 

Wickes,  Sarah  Brush   48,  87 

Wickes,  Sarah  Eliza   104 


Wickes,  Sarah  Rogers 


86 


Wickes,  Scudder,  Sr.,  1767-76.  .47,  80,  87 
Wickes,  Scudder,  Jr.,  1786-87. .  .47,  So,  87 

Wickes,  Seth   35 

Wickes,  Silas,  baptized  1724 34 

Wickes,  Silas,  baptized  1740 35 

Wickes,  Silas,  baptized  1758 35 

Wickes,  Silas,  m.  Esther  Pine,  1765...   36 
Wickes,  Silas,   1784.  son  of  Daniel  and 

Rebecca  Wickes   22 

Wickes,   Silas,  son  of  Thomas  Wickes 

(3)    • 35,80 

Wickes,  Stephen,  baptized  1728   34 

Wickes,  Stephen,  baptized  175S 35 

Wickes,  Stephen,  M.  D.,  1813-89 

[5].  34,  49, 

58,  60,  70,  71-75,  82,  83,  101,  102,  103 

Biography 7I_75 

Letters 60-64 

Portrait    Frontispiece 

Works   73 

Wickes,  Susanna,  baptized  1762   35 

Wickes,  Susanna,  m.  Jacob  Miller,  1738  36 

Wickes,  Tappe   35 

Wickes,   Thomas,   b.    1612,   of   Hather- 

leigh,  Devon  (Eng.)    10 

Wickes,  Thomas,  1635,  of  Staines  (Mid- 
dlesex Co.,  Eng.)   l3 

Wickes,  Thomas,   1650,  son  of  Francis 

Wickes  I2 

Wickes,  Thomas,  Elector,  1691 

19,  21(2),  22(2),  38 


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Wickes,  Thomas,  Surveyors'  certificates 
Aug.  iS.  1736,  1739 26,  27(2).  28 

Wickes,  Thomas,  1776,  5th  son  of  John 
and  Rose  Wickes 13 

Wickes,  Thomas  (1),  d.  1671 11, 

15.  20(2).  21(3),  25,  38.  41,  71,  85(2) 

Wickes,  Thomas  (2),  1650-1725,  name 
appears  in  deeds  of  1708,  171 1,  1714 
and  1725  as  Caff.  Thomas  Wicks... 
21,  22(4),  38.  85(3) 

Wickes,  Capt.  Thomas  (3),  1676- 1749. . 

: 33,  39(5)-  85,  86 

Wickes,  Thomas,  Jr.,  1703-49 

26,  27(2),  28(3),  39,  86 

Wickes,  Thomas   (4),  1744-1819 

[5],  13,  28,  29(3),  30(4),  31,  32-34, 

36,  37,  41(2),  47(3).  48-53.  54(2), 
58,  80,  86,  87,    101(2),    116,   117,    125 

Histor.  notices 48-53 

-  Will,  1819 32-34 

Wickes,  Thomas,  baptized  1740 35 

Wickes,  Thomas,  m.  Mary  Udall,  1738..   36 
Wickes,  Thomas,  the  elder,  1775-79.  •  •  • 

47.  80,  87 

Wickes,  Thomas,  the  younger,  1784-1801 

47.   80,   87 

Wickes,  Rev.  Thomas,  D.  D.,  1814-70. . 

46(3).  66-71,  ioi,  104(2),  105(2) 

Biography   66-7 1 

Works  of  69 

Wickes,  Thomas,  b.  18 14 82-83 

Wickes,  Thomas,   1838-3S 102 

Wickes,  Rev.  Thomas  Alexander  ..104(4) 

Wickes,  Thomas  Alexander  (2)    104 

Wickes,  Thomas  Parmelee   89 

Wickes,  Rev.    Thomas    Scudder,    1795- 

1876 41,  45(2),  64,  65,  81  (4;, 

88(2),  89,  91  (3),  92(2),  93,  ...  100 

Biography 64-65 

Wickes,  Van  Wyck,  1773-76.  .47(2),  8o,  87 
Wickes,  Gen.  Van  Wyck  (2),  1779-1865 

33(2), 

41,  42(3).  47.  5°.  62,  66,  71,  80,  82, 
83,  87(2),  101,  102,  104(2),  105(2), 
106(2),     112,     113,     115(2),     120,     122 

Biography 58-60 

Portrait 58 

Wickes,  Van  Wyck,  1827-28.  ..42,  83,   102 
Wickes,  Van  Wyck,  1832-95.. 83,  102,  115 


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ekes,  Van  Wyck,  b.  1867 115 

ekes,  Walter  Herriman   91 

ekes,  William,  of  Hatherleigh  (Dev- 

.  Eng.)    10,  13 

ekes,  William,  baptized  1752   35 

ekes,  William  Rockwell   104,   105 

ekes,  William  W.,  1819-1900 

76-78,  82,   101,   112 

-  Biography   76-78 

ekes,   William   Woodbridge    ....104(2) 

ekes,  Zapher 22 

ekes  (Montana)    yyt  104 

ekes  family   80 

ekes  (The)  Refrigerator  Car 77 

ckfield    (Eng.)     9 

ckham   (Eng.)    9 

ckliffe   (Md.)    14,  15 

cks.    See  also  Weekes,  Weeks,  Wick, 
'ikes,  Wyke. 

cks,  Ezekial  or  Ezekiel 39(2) 

cks,  Gilbert   40 

cks,  John,  1635   11 

cks,  John,  1660-1719,  Legend  of . . . .  40 

cks,  John,  1739 27(2) 

cks,  Jonithan   27(2) 

cks,  Joseph 22 

cks,  Capt.  Lambert  14 

cks,  Sarah,  d.  1795   40 

cks,  Sarah,  d.  1808 30 

cks,  Capt.  Thomas.   See  Wickes, 
Thomas  (2). 

cks,  Thomas.    See  Wickes,  Thomas, 
1703-49. 

cks,  Thomas,  1681  20,  21 

kes.  See  also  Weekes,  Weeks,  Wick, 
'icks,  Wyke. 

lcox,  Amy  Blatchford 1 16 

lcox,  Samuel  Dwight 116 

lcox,  Thomas  Blatchford 116 

Ikes,  Henry 58 

Ikes,  Thomas,  1656 19(2) ,  20 

lkins,  Mary  44 

lkins,  Samuel 121 

lkins,  Samuel  D  44 

lliams,  Cordelia  93 

lliams,  Dorothy   124 

lliams,  John  Chandler 95.  124 

lliams,  Jonas  93 

lliams,  Martha  Herriman 93 

lliams,  Mary  Emily 95.  124(2) 


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Williams,  Olive  Penniman 93 

Williams,  Robert   20 

Williams,  Roger  .  . . .' 12 

Williams,  Thomas  Scudder   *. .  .  93 

Williams,   William    1-4(2) 

Williamson,  Stephen  B 30 

W'indcatt,   Alicia    95 

..Winslow,  Harriet  W 8S,  91,  93 

Winslow,  John  F 88,  91,  93 

Winslow,  Julia   91 

Winslow,  Mary  Corning  7 91 

Winslow,  Thomas  Scudder 91,  93 

Winthrop,  Governor 13,  122 

Wix.    See  also  Weekes,  Weeks,  Wick, 

Wicks,  Wikes,  Wyke. 
Wolfe,  Gen.  James,  1727-59 17 

,-  Wood,  Caleb  21 

Wood,  Edmund   20 

Wood,  Jemima   36 

Wood,  John  22,  25 

Wood,  Jonas 19(2),  20,  21(2),  22 

Wood.  Jones  21 

Wood,  Joshua   86 

Wood,  Rebecca 36 

Wood,  Ruth  Wickes  86 

Wood,  Thomas  20 

Woodbridge,  Elizabeth  Darling 104(2) 

Woodbury  (L.  I.)   125 


Woodhull,  General  48 

Woolsey,  Pies,  of  Yale  College   79 

Wray   (the  original  name  for  Weekes, 

Wyke,  etc.)    .  . .  . 10 

Wright,  Benjamin   44,  83,  121 

Wright,  Elizabeth   125 

Wright,  Martha 44 

Wright,  Martha  Harriman 83,  121 

Wye.    See  also  Weekes,  Weeks,  Wick, 

Wicks,  Wikes,  Wyke. 
Wyckes,  General  Van  Wyck.   See 

Wickes,  Genera!  Van  Wyck. 

Wyckoff,  Elizabeth  120 

Wyke.   See  also  Weekes,  Weeks,  Wick, 

Wicks,  Wikes. 
Wyke  (an  early  form  for  Wyke,  Weeks, 

etc.)    10 

Wykes,  Thomas,   1561    15 

Wyllys,  S 18 

"Yale   College    64..   66,   75,78 

Yale  Theological  School 67 

York,  Duke  of,  Letters  patent  1664 19 

Yorkshire  (Eng.)    122 

Young,  Charlotte  Brown  98 

Youngs,  Israel    53 

Youngs,  Philip,  counterfeiter,  1776 52 

Zaccheus  and  the  Sycamore  tree 62 

Zulus   (Africa)    67 


CORRECTIONS. 


Page    17.     For  Wolfe  fell,  September  12,  1758,  read  September  13,  1759. 
Page    45.     Henry  Sylvanus  Wickes. 

For  Died  at  Albany,  December  27,  1827,  read  1837. 
Page    47.     For  Francis  was  born  October  25,  1770,  read  Frances. 
Page    47.     For  Frauds  the  elder  died  September  30,  1776,  read  Frances. 
Page    47.     For  Francis  the  younger  died  February  6,  1778,  read  Frances. 
Page    47.     For  Francis  was  born  March  30,  1777,  read  Frances. 
Page    47.     Thomas  Wickes,  Sr. 

For  August  2i,  1744,  read  August  10,  1740. 
Page    58.     For  General  Van  Wyck  Wyckes,  read  General  Van  Wyck  Wickes. 
Page    64.     For  Ordained  Evangelist  by  President,  read  Ordained  Evangelist  by 

Presbytery. 
Page    80.     Thomas  Wickes. 

For  August  21,  1740,  read  August  10,  1740. 
Page    82.     Elizabeth  Punnett. 

For  died  at  Troy,  August  27,  1834,  read  died  at  Troy,  August  27,  1831. 
Page    87.     Thomas  Wickes  (4). 

For  August  10,  1744,  read  August  10,  1740. 
Page    87.     Scudder  Wickes. 

For  born  at  Huntington,  September  9,  1768,  read  1767. 
Page  100.     Elizabeth  Punnett. 

For  died  at  Troy,  N.  Y.,  August  27,  1S34,  read  died  at  Troy,  N.  Y., 
August  27,  1 83 1. 
Page  108.     Emma  Richmond  Rossiter. 

After  Emma  add  (died  October  23,  18S8). 
Page  120.     For  Horace  Clark  Hagen,  read  Horace  Clark  Hazen.